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By NOVUS HOMO. 

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THREE INTERVIEWS: 
I. Man as an Animal. 
II. Man as a Magnetic Battery and an Ei,ectro- 

Tei,Egraphic Machine. 
III. Man Americanized. The Great Republic ; 
Its Status, Dangers, Duties, and its Future. 



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1896. 






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PREFACE. 

Brotherly words of a Briton to his fellow-men at home and 
broad ; with a special message to ' ' Brother Jonathan. ' ' 

Novus Homo. 
January, i8g6. 



FIRST INTERVIEW. 



To improve the breed of the genus homo is the foremost duty 
of man. 



FIRST INTERVIEW. 

MAN AS AN ANIMAI,. 

" No, my dear Juvenis, there is no denying the sad 
fact that the average man is a very low-grade animal!" 

Such was the exclamation of my dear old friend, the 
Senior, when we had comfortably seated ourselves in 
his cozy sanctum to enjoy a cup of delicious Mocha 
after dinner, on the evening of a day of sight-seeing at 
our Annual Agricultural Show. 

" Yes, my dear Juvenis, to-day's magnificent Agri- 
cultural 'Exposition,' as it might well be called, clearly 
demonstrated the all-important, but humiliating fact 
that of all the domesticated animals on exhibition, the 
human were of the lowest average grade!" 

And with increased warmth and emphasis, he ex- 
claimed: "Of the exhibitors and exhibited on the 
show grounds to-day, the latter, take them all in all, 
were the thoroughbred animals; and precious few of 
the former, including ' our noble selves,' would have 
been awarded a 'first prize' by intelligent and im- 
partial judges! 



8 Y£ THOROUGHBRED. 

" Yes, indeed, most of the human bipeds on the 
grounds were third or fourth -rate animals ; and not a 
few of them were 'out of the count' altogether. 

" Why, forsooth, poor 'Hodge' was pitiable to look 
upon, compared with the splendid pigs and cattle that 
he tended. And of the magnificent draught, carriage, 
and saddle-horses, pray tell me, which, in general, 
were the real thoroughbred animals, their drivers, 
their owners, or the horses?" 

Being quite overcome by this outburst, I fortified 
myself with a fresh cup of Mocha. 

Mine host, the Senior, continued: " Yes, indeed, 
when as much cultivated common sense and true 
science are exercised in raising human animals as are 
now so generally exercised in breeding domestic fowls, 
and pigs, and sheep, and cattle, and horses, the long 
looked-for human millenium will begin, and not until 
then." 

Almost breathless with astonishment, I exclaimed: 
" My dear Senior, you are surely forgetful of man's 
higher nature!" 

" Not in the least, my dear Juvenis. And while I 
have no desire to intrench upon the proper sphere of 
parson, priest, or pedagogue, yet they even may 
be none the worse by hearing from a friendly layman. 
The sooner we all get down to 'rock-bottom facts' in 
regard to these all- important matters, the better it will 
be for us as individuals* and for mankind. 



MAN AS AN ANIMAI,. 9 

"Yes, the fact is, and I repeat it with increased 
emphasis: Man, the world over, is positively and 
comparatively a very low-grade animal; and the im- 
provement in any species has hitherto been largely the 
result of favoring circumstances, good luck, haphazard 
chance, or mere lottery, and but in small part the re- 
sult of the exercise of enlightened common sense and 
intelligent obedience to the laws of nature on the part 
of man himself; and hence also why it is that the per- 
centage of human imbeciles, low-grades, and mon- 
strosities of every kind, is so preponderatingly and, as 
some aver, increasingly large, with the ever accom- 
panying concomitants of incurable diseases, helpless 
or vicious lives and deplorable deaths. ' ' 

t ' But, my dear Senior, it is to be borne in mind 
that 'we are what we are,' that we did not make our- 
selves." 

1 ' Yes, yes, my dear Juvenis, and therein, for the 
most part, lies the gist of the whole matter. We are 
what we are, chiefly because of whatjour progenitors 
were, because of our environments, and because of 
what we ourselves have done, or have not done. But 
herein also arises the all-important question: 'What 
shall those be who come after us, of whom we may 
be the progenitors ?' 

' ' Yes, of all the most frequently omitted, the oft 
neglected, and the generally unconsidered human 
duties, is my duty and my responsibility to those who. 



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may become bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh ; 
while, in fact, of all human duties and responsibilities, 
this is the greatest, and the neglect of which is 
most dishonorable, unmanly, and criminal even, in the 
highest degree." 

" But, my dear Senior, you seem to forget that there 
is an overruling Providence in all these things," 

' ' Not at all, my dear Juvenis. No one more firmly 
believes in an all- wise, overruling Providence than I 
do. The very name which "we' thus humbly and de- 
voutly apply to the great I AM] should remove that 
doubt, since it literally signifies a foreseeing and fore- 
arranging all things wisely and well, which man 
should studiously copy and obediently follow in all 
things, and in nothing more than in regard to those 
who are to succeed him, of his own very kith and 
kin. But fie on the very best of human kind! Nearly 
the opposite of all such is the case, and hence mere 
chance or blind fate rules the destinies of the human 
race. When, indeed, will thoughtless and cruel man 
take as much real practical interest in the good 
qualities which his child, may inherit as in those of the 
calf or the colt which he may rear ? And again, I 
still more emphatically enquire : When will as much 
sanctified common sense, real knowledge, and wise 
forethought be exercised in regard to raising human 
beings as are now so generally exercised in raising 
other animals of almost every kind ? 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 1 1 

" Oh, for a more than trumpet voice to make every 
human being hear this heaven's evangel of the physical 
regeneration of humanity, and the accompanying and 
consequent higher and still higher development of 
man's instinctive, electrical, mental, moral and spirit- 
ual capabilities! 

"Most human guides of to-day, and of the long 
ages past, have, in general, all but 'reversed' the plan 
of nature and of nature's God for the regenerative 
perfectibility of the human race; and hence failure, all 
but complete, is everywhere manifest as the sad result. 

1 ' Witness in proof thereof that the nations wherein 
this ' reversed' system of nature, and of grace even, has 
had its fullest scope and longest sway and domination, 
contain the largest percentage of human beings sunk 
in the lowest depths of ignorance and barbarity ; and 
hence to-day - Darkest Europe' exceeds ' Darkest 
Africa' in its mass of foulness of human depravity ! 

" The animal perfectibility of man should ever be 
the ' alpha' of all human effort ; and, in inevitable 
consequence, the ' omega' of true individual and gen- 
eral progress and perfectibility in all else, will certainly 
follow as the result of proper bodily, instinctive, 
moral, and mental training, and of true spiritual 
enlightenment !" 

"But, my dear Senior, you appear to forget how 
much the superior races have progressed even in their 
blindness, of which you speak so emphatically.' ' 



12 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

" There it is again, my dear Juvenis — the unhappy 
and the insufferable ' egotism' of the individual crys- 
talized into a ( racial creed' ! The superior races, for- 
sooth, and yet, if asked to name these superior races, 
you, like most others, would first and foremost name 
your own nationality ; next you would hesitatingly 
name a very few others ; and then you would shortly 
stop from very shame, or from fear of giving mortal 
offense ! 

' ' And thus it always is and always has been 
everywhere from farthest India to I^and's End ! It is 
always Ind and Ethiop, Jew and Gentile, Greek and 
Barbarian, Christian and Heathen. In one unhappy 
form or another, it is always Ego et tu, great / and 
little u, and all the while oblivious to the patent 
though paradoxical fact that, ever and anon, the big- 
gest individual of either species has been and is bigger 
than the biggest individual of either of the others ; 
and that the possibly continuous races have capabili- 
ties of all but indefinite improvement in their own 
habitats and in bettered environments ; and that m 
the world's economy each is a necessary complement 
of every other. 

' ' Yes, yes, and this much-boasted progress too ! 
Why, my dear Juvenis, in all the past, and even 
amongst the best circumstanced races of men, it has 
ever been more like the fitful rising and falling of 
ocean's waves, or the flood and ebbing of its tides, than 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 1 3 

as it ought to be — the steady uplifting of humanity to 
a higher and still higher plane in all that is good and 
beneficent. 

' 'True, I gladly admit that there has been and is much 
of real beneficent progress amongst some of the vari- 
ous races in many ways ; and, in some respects, never 
more than among our own people at home and abroad 
in our own day. But after all, comparatively speak- 
ing, how very limited it is ; and even amongst the 
most favored peoples, how much of it is really aught 
but progress in the ways and means of selfish ' greed 
and grab', and poor man himself remains, in general, 
but the same average low-grade animal ; and the lines 
of cleavage between the classes and the masses, 
whether of the older or of the newer types, still 
remain, and the latter are often broader, deeper, and 
more selfish than the former ! 

"Yes, indeed, my dear Juvenis, I greatly rejoice 
that much real progress has been made amongst some 
peoples in many ways, but I need hardly remind 
you that many of the highest developments of this or 
any other intermediate age among any people, seem 
bald when compared with like outcomes in farthest 
India many milleniums ago — as witness the most cer- 
tain ocular proof thereof in the wondrously perfect and 
still extant language of that people in the remotest of 
most remote known ages. Nor can you be unmindful 
of the ' L,ost Arts' of Damascus, Syria, and Egypt ; 



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neither need you be reminded that our own seemingly 
all-powerful £. s. d. , nor the ' almighty dollar' of 
our progressive cousins across the sea, could secure a 
syndicate of architects and mechanicians to erect a com- 
plete counterpart of ' the great pyramid.' And, more- 
over, my dear Juvenis, it cannot be successfully denied 
that much of the so-called ' best philosophic thought' 
of to-day, seems but plagiarized from that of the oldest 
known times ! 

' ' Hence, let us duly moderate our ' boast' of our 
unequalled 'modern progress', respectfully reduce 
the dimensions of the great / and sensibly increase 
those of the little u; since, by my troth, man's highest 
interests lie in magnifying the latter to those of a 
goodly-sized capital, so as to hasten the coming of the 
true ' golden age' when everywhere it may be great / 
and equal U." 

But, in sheer amazement, I ventured to remark : 
1 ' My dear Senior, are you not fast becoming a hopeless 
pessimist?" 

1 ' Not at all, my dear Juvenis. On the contrary, I 
am but speaking the words of truth and soberness 
which my brother men throughout the whole world 
will soon hear to some purpose. In fact, my dear 
Juvenis, I am in stern reality, a veritable optimist in all 
things that pertain to the physical perfectibility of man, 
in accordance with the unalterable laws of his being ; 
and the many grand specimens of true all-round man- 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 15 

hood and womanhood now existing in every species of 
the ge?ius homo, which is within the pale of human 
racial redemption, is positive ocular proof beyond all 
faithless doubt or possible peradventure, of what, in 
ever broadening expansion, awaits man's increasing 
knowledge of, and more perfect obedience to, the irre- 
vocable laws which govern his procreation and the 
genuine unfoldment of all his wondrous capabilities. 

"And viewing man from the mere animal stand- 
point, which is the real foundation of the whole human 
superstructure, and bearing in mind the amazing 
* animal' improvement witnessed at our Agricultural 
Exposition to-day, and duly considering one of the 
aptest illustrations expressed in the tersest of plain 
Knglish by our go-ahead American cousins, that if ' a 
colt can be bred and trained to do a mile in two minutes, ' 
what then cannot be done in breeding all domestic 
animals (man included) in all possible and desirably 
good qualities ? 

"There, now, I hope you fully understand me. 
And no one can appreciate more fully than yourself 
that, in speaking plainly on this most important of all 
human facts, duties, and responsibilities, plain, truth- 
ful language need not offend the most refined ear nor 
perturb the most sensitive heart. The purest and 
most intelligently cultured men and women of to-day 
manifest the most lively interest in the improvement 
of all domestic animals, as witness the intelligen 



1 6 Y3 Thoroughbred. 

remarks and criticisms made by large numbers of such 
— the ladies even, both matrons and maids — at our 
Agricultural Show to-day ! 

"Yes, my dear Juvenis, in no other way are the 
dawnings of a new and grander civilization more man- 
ifest than in the fact that humaneness is becoming more 
and more recognized as a cardinal human virtue. L,et 
such humaneness towards other animals be also pre- 
eminently exercised towards our own selves, towards 
our own kith and kin, towards our own species, and 
towards our own genus ; and the divine work of which 
I now speak will be well begun." 

1 'But, my dear Senior, are you not forgetting that there 
are unknown, and to man unknowable, causes, con- 
ditions, and circumstances which are beyond his con- 
trol and direction in all these things?" 

i l Far from it, my dear Juvenis, for do we not see 
every day, as it were, how readily and with seeming 
willingness, mother Nature yields up her hitherto sup- 
posed-to-be most mysterious inorganic and organic 
secrets to the experimental scientist, or to the thought- 
ful observer ; and how, almost continuously, the 
supposed occult forces are being caught, so to speak, 
and harnessed and made obediently subservient to 
man. 

( ' And besides, does the thoughtful and skillful per- 
son who successfully raises perfected flower, or fruit, 
or grain, or bird, or animals of any kind, talk as you 



MAN AS AN ANlMAt. 17 

now do of the unknown and unknowable causes, con- 
ditions, facts, and circumstances beyond his ken and 
control in these things ? 

" Not at all ; but on the contrary, see how intelli- 
gently, perseveringly, and scientifically he observes, 
thinks, reasons, experiments, and acts ; and hence the 
truly wonderful perfection being attained thereby in 
the vegetable and animal world. 

1 ' The sad fact, however, is that ' progressive man* 
is but beginning to give thought, and skill, and care, 
to the improved reproduction of all useful and orna- 
mental living things — except himself, a chief reason 
for which, doubtless, is that he has discovered that 
1 there is money' in the former, but that he has not yet 
fully discovered that there is not only ' money' but in- 
finitely more than ' money' in the latter, namely, 
health and happiness, and an increased and increas- 
ing capacity to make himself and others ' healthy, 
wealthy, and wise' ! 

' ' It surely cannot be, my dear Juvenis, that man, 
the head of the animal creation, the noblest work of 
God, shall ever thus leave the procreation of his own 
species to the sad chapter of accidents, and attribute 
the woeful results of his own ignorance, neglect, and 
criminality to 'the will of God,' when all the while 
the will of the Creator is that every child born into 
the world, be perfect and still more perfect ' after his 
kind.'" 



1 8 m THOROUGHBRED. 

"But, my c^ear Senior, are you not somewhat 
unmindful of the vast good that is being done in the 
education of the rising generation ?" 

1 ' Not in the least, my dear Juvenis. On the con- 
trary, no one more highly appreciates the value, or 
more firmly believes in the imperative necessity, of 
giving a thorough elementary education to every youth 
in the Commonwealth, and no one more rejoices in 
the betterment and expansion in our own and in other 
lands of higher popular education in all the liberal 
and industrial arts and sciences. But taking into ac- 
count successive generations of the whole population, 
how limited, imperfect, and unsatisfactory is the pres- 
ent percentage of permanently good and beneficent re- 
sults ! The few are improved, but what of the many ? 

"Yes, my dear Juvenis, the conscientious parent, 
the generous philanthropist, the duty-performing State, 
and the laborious efforts of the ablest educators, are 
ever confronted with the multitudinous manifestations 
of the stubborn, 'rock-bottom' fact, so forcibly ex- 
pressed in the homely adage: 'A silk purse cannot be 
made out of a pig's ear!' 

* ' The original material must be good, or it cannot 
be wrought and polished into excellence and beauty. 

' ' The human youth, like any other young animal, 
must, by inheritance, have high perfection 'after his 
kind,' else the best of training can do but little towards 



MAN AS AN ANIMAI,. 1 9 

making him an equal, much less a superior, among 
his fellow-youths better than himself by inheritance. 

1 ' In fact, the best of care and the best of training 
of the babe and youth can but partially mitigate or 
partially stave off the inevitably sad outcomes and re- 
sults of weakly, diseased, evilly biased, or other ab- 
normal inheritances, whether they be bodily, instinc- 
tive, mental, moral, or spiritual. No care nor training 
can transform the body of a child radically diseased 
and polluted into a pure, healthy adult human being. 

" Nature's law is that 'like begets like.' And mak- 
ing every conceivable, or even every 'miraculous, ' al- 
lowance, it remains true, in general, that as the child is 
born so and such will he live and die. 

" A sad fact also is that education, so-called, makes 
the ' natural-born thief a more expert adult robber ; 
and so it is likewise through the whole gamut of 
depraved and vicious inheritances. 

" Oh, yes, my dear Juvenis, many have learned much 
by what is popularly called education, but very few 
have yet learned the alphabet of the facts and laws of 
perfective human procreation, which is the true basis 
of all beneficial education ; and, triste dirtu, fewer still 
sensibly practice what they do know. 

"The divine command, 'Man, know thyself, and 
govern thyself accordingly,' is emblazoned on every 
page of the open book of nature ! He who runs may 
read, and none disobey with impunity. Grace, too, 



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proclaims, and all observation and experience confirm 
the stern but beneficent decree of nature, that the man 
is criminal who blindly or knowingly begets offspring 
incurably diseased or physically imperfect and 
viciously depraved." 

" But, my dear Senior, you surely must concede that 
the conditions differ ; man has entire control over the 
lower animals." 

" Quite true ; it must be conceded that the proper 
control of the humane man over the other and, in some 
respects and qualities, lower animals, does measurably 
facilitate their constantly improved reproduction and 
trained perfection. But who not bereft of reason and 
common sense, will aver that the like facts, the like 
knowledge, and like skill, together with like motives, 
ends, and aims, have not a like, and even a far grander 
application to the perfected procreation and still more 
perfective culture of human animals ; and that man is 
not abundantly capable of evolving the more difficult 
' how' of their application to the progressive bodily 
perfection of his own species, in like manner as he has 
done, and is constantly doing, in the wondrous per- 
fection already attained by him in the breeding and 
training of the lower animals ? 

" Yes, yes, my dear Juvenis, most of the so-called 
insuperable difficulties said to stand in the way of the 
like progressive improvement of the genus homo y con- 
tsidered as human animals, are purely imaginary; and 



MAN AS AN ANIMAI,. 2 1 

the very day that all the now teaching and teachable 
of human beings — men and women — fairly and honestly 
set themselves about the due examination and candid 
consideration of their all-important responsibilities and 
duties to themselves and to their offspring, on the lines 
now set forth, half the supposed difficulties in the way 
will at once disappear, and the dawn of the millenial 
era of progressive human bodily perfectibility will 
appear. ' ' 

' ■ But, my dear Senior, how do you account for it 
that this all-important matter, as you call it, has 
hitherto been so little heeded?" 

11 Chiefly, my dear Juvenis, because of the dense ig- 
norance of most men and women — both teachers and 
taught— of the facts and laws of human procreation and 
human heredity. 

' ' Many are profoundly learned in almost every other 
department of human knowledge; and, happily, by 
voice and pen, and by the printing press, they com- 
municate what they have learned to their fellow-men. 
But pray, tell me, what student of man has acquired 
and has thus imparted a like inerrant knowledge of 
the essential rudiments even of this the most import- 
ant of all human knowledge ? 

' ' Innumerable text-books exist upon almost every 
other science, but where is even one such like text- 
book to be found on this most fundamentally import- 
ant of the sciences ? 



22 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

" Many noble institutions of learning have trained 
and dubbed all but unnumbered masters of arts and of 
sciences, and a host of doctors (teachers) of divinity, 
of law, of medicine, and the like, but pray, tell me, 
where is there one of all these graduates duly and right- 
fully entitled to be called a master, much less a doctor, 
of this science of all sciences, namely, an exact and 
systematized knowledge of the facts and laws of human 
procreation, human heredity , and of real human culture? 

"Pray, tell me also, what school, college, or uni- 
versity in the wide world has a professor on its staff of 
instructors whose sole duty it is to acquire such like 
knowledge, and impart such like instruction in this 
science as is now generally so well and so thoroughly 
done in the sciences of language, mathematics, phil- 
osophy, chemistry, geology and the like ? The sad 
fact is, my dear Juvenis, that this fundamental and 
practically most valuable of all human sciences has 
been and still is all but wholly tabooed, ignored, and 
suppressed in most homes, in most institutions of 
learning, and in most lecture-rooms, excepting certain 
limited instruction given in medical and veterinary 
schools. 

* ' Will such woeful ignorance and such woeful want 
of instruction be suffered much longer to prevail ? I 
trow not. 

" Moreover, my dear Juvenis, another sad fact is 
that in all ages the chiefest concern of tyrants and 



MAN A3 AN ANIMAL. 23 

oppressors of every kind, has been the aggregating and 
utilizing of human beings as mere 'hewers of wood 
and drawers of water' — in short, as mere beasts of 
burden for the oppressors' own advantage and aggran- 
dizement ; and although spasmodic manifestations 
thereof are observable in almost every age throughout 
the known history of the world, yet it is only in our 
own day, as it were, that the grand, the divine fact 
that the masses of mankind were not created for the 
aggrandizement of the classes, has been evangelically 
proclaimed and given practical form and embodiment. 
And j^et, even to this very hour, witness with what 
unhuman ingenuity oppressors of every sort are frantic- 
ally seeking to continue to lord it over man and his 
divine heritage, and to keep the masses of their fellow- 
men in subservient bondage of body, mind, and spirit; 
and hence they are perpetually warring against the 
beneficent decree of nature that all men, ' after their 
kind,' are endowed by their Creator with equal inher- 
ent rights, privileges, and prerogatives ; and hence 
that they are equally entitled to all possible, practic- 
able means, opportunities, and assistance even in what- 
ever pertains to their betterment in all things, according 
to their susceptibility and capacity for progressive 
perfectibility 'after their kind;' for nature's flat is, 
infinite variety, infinite diversity in all things animate 
and inanimate, and hence a possible beneficent unity 
in diversity. 



24 Y # THOROUGHBRED. 

' ' Moreover, and I beg with due emphasis to repeat 
that it is but in our own day that among many of any 
class of beneficent toilers with hand or head, the pos- 
sible realization of the physical regeneration and pro- 
gressive bodily perfectibility of mankind has become 
an article of human faith, and a matter of practical 
human belief. 

"And with 'line upon line and precept upon precept,' 
I cannot but reiterate that such, in great part, has 
doubtless come about from such and such like facts as 
we have witnessed to-day, showing that amongst intel- 
ligent agriculturists, and others, the improved perfecti- 
bility of domestic animals has in a very few generations 
advanced fully one- third of one hundred per cent., and 
that the good work still goes steadily on. 

"Man, in part, therefore, has begun seriously to 
enquire whether the same facts and the same principles 
do not in like manner apply to his own animal perfecti- 
bility, and, as I have before said, nature's plan for the 
individual and racial regeneration of man has, in 
general, been all but 'reversed' hitherto; and hence 
real human betterment and progress have been but 
partial, reactive, and sadly fitful and limited. 

"Besides, as I have said, this all-important subject 
has, to a humiliating extent, been systematically 
tabooed, and the stern facts in regard to it have been 
practically ignored, until even in this our own day the 
conditions of most human procreations are even below 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 2$ 

those of most tmdomesticated animals; and hence the 
low grade of mankind in ' Darkest England ' are of 
a lower grade, ' after their kind, ' than those in 'Darkest 
Africa.' And yet, with the pious complaisancy of the 
Pharisee, we thank God that we are not as other men, 
while, at the same time, the charge against us is not 
wholly without justification that we seek to impose our 
boasted 'civilization' upon the inhabitants of the 
1 Dark Continent ' by giving them a ' Bible ' with one 
hand, and a bottle of ' whiskey ' with the other; and, 
alas, also that our chief instruments hitherto for the 
* civilization ' of the so-called ' heathen Chinee, ' have 
been ' bullets of lead ' and ' pellets of opium ' ! 

" But, my dear Juvenis, to return from this somewhat 
abrupt, but not wholly irrelevant, ' aside' from the 
main point under consideration, I unhesitatingly state 
without fear of successful contradiction, that in all 
the so-called most highly ' civilized' countries, and 
not always in what are styled the lowest ranks of 
society, multitudes of children are born every year 
who, by their inherited instincts, are naturally ' crim- 
inals' and from birth are preponderatingly prone to 
what is humanly bad and brutal (apologizing to the 
average "brute" for this grave misuse of the word), 
and they who blindly or knowingly are the forbears of 
such, incur tremendous responsibilities, the awful 
consequences of which are beyond all human calcu- 
lations ! 



26 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

" The undeniable fact is that the bodily make the 
natural qualities, and inherited instincts and appetites 
of a human being are the real foundations, the sum 
and substance of all within him and of him that is or 
will be good or bad of every kind ! 

' ' The law of nature is, as is the child, so will be 
the man, and hence the child is father of the man. And 
back of all this lies the question of infinite import, 
What shall the child be, and how shall he be and 
become the most perfect and perfective * after his 
kind?'" 

' ' But, my dear Senior, is not such beyond the 
capacity and power of man to accomplish ?" 

' ' Not at all, my dear Juvenis, as is ocularly manifest 
from the numbers of now living individuals and fami- 
lies of the highest ' all-round' grade of human animals 
that ever existed among any people in any age or in any 
country ; and these notable exceptions incontestably 
prove the actuality and the general applicability of 
the rule or law. Besides, this question of yours is of no 
force nor effect unless it can be shown (as it cannot 
be) that the same facts and the same laws applicable 
to the breeding and training of the lower animals, are 
not substantially and in like manner applicable to the 
procreation and education of ' human animals ;' and it 
would be the merest folly to assume, and worse than 
folly to affirm, that man is not capable of taking cog- 



MAN AS AN ANIMAt. 27 

nizance of such facts and laws of his being and success- 
fully applying them to himself and to his offspring. 

" Moreover, to state in varied form what I have 
already intimated, carefully note the goodly number 
of those in different ranks of society who, having in- 
herited comparatively pure and perfect bodies, have by 
comparatively upright lives, by considerately well- 
assorted marriages, and by the intelligent care and 
culture of their offspring, richly enjoy the highest 
human felicity of having families of even better sons 
and daughters than they themselves were or are. And, 
by my troth, were it not because of such pillars of 
wisdom, strength, and beauty, the whole fabric of so- 
ciety would speedily collapse or be thrown down in 
anarchic ruin, as has so often been the case in past 
ages with peoples who had become honeycombed with 
corruption, and hence whose name even has become 
but an historical remembrance. Man's body is the 
real starting point in the race of permanent human im- 
provement and social progress. 

" Half the substance of the now better portion of 
mankind is expended in what is called 'charity,' in 
comparatively futile endeavors to mitigate or cure 
what should have been almost wholly ' prevented;' or 
by taxation in providing the means of protection of 
their own selves and substance from the assaults and 
grasp of the baser sort of mankind. 

" Most, also, of the hitherto generally 'reversed' and 



2.3 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

almost wholly ' misdirected' efforts for the renovation 
of mankind and of society, have their unhappily too 
apt illustration in the fable of Sysiphus, who, as a 
punishment for his depredations in Attica, was com- 
pelled to roll a large stone up a mountain in the in- 
fernal regions, which, however, always rolled down 
again. 

' ' In our social inferno, an end can and must be put 
to all such and such like futile processes as have marked 
and marred the long, dark and dreary past." 

1 ' But, my dear Senior, would not the attainment of 
the animal perfectibility of man, of which you speak 
with so much warmth, be all but hopelessly slow ?' ' 

"Yes, in general, my dear Juvenis, comparatively 
slow but sure, as all of nature's processes of improved 
and improving growth and upbuilding are. The 
world was not made in an hour, nor was Iyondon built 
in a day. The mighty oak or the stately elm is the 
growth of many years. An improved breed of domestic 
animals is the resultant of several generations; and so 
of man. 

" 'Hopelessly slow V Not at all, for let me remind you 
that while an individual may speedily wreck himself, 
like as an incendiary may quickly destroy the finest 
superstructure, the degradation of man is, in general, 
the outcome of long-continued malgenerations, and 
that mother Nature never has left, and never can leave, 
her whole world-wide family stranded in hopeless 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 2£ 

degradation. Scattered groups of such there are and 
have been, but beneficent nature consigns such alone 
to elemental dust as are unredemptively on the down- 
ward grade thither. Nor should it be forgotten that 
seldom, indeed, at any time or anywhere, has there 
been a Sodom that ten righteous men could not have 
saved. Neither should it be forgotten that the terms 
destructive and redemptive may be, and in their ulti- 
mate analysis are, in nature's economy alike benefi- 
cent, and that life and death are necessary correlatives. 
" 'Hopelessly slow?' No, my dear Juvenis, see, as I 
have before said, the now happily increasing numbers 
of true men and women coming forward from every 
rank, to the foremost walks of life, who fully realize 
that what they are and what they may be are chiefly 
due, first, to their good bodily inheritances; second, to 
their well upbringing; and next, to their own rightful 
and skillful utilization of their environments. All such 
men and women are more and more fully realizing that 
the first of these is the real foundation of what follows, 
and hence they are becoming more and more imbued 
with the best of all parental desires, that they who 
may be begotten of them shall be, bodily and other- 
wise, as good or better than themselves. They know 
that such is not the result of mere chance or lot, but 
of intelligent choice, and of manly and womanly 
obedience to the laws of nature governing their own 



30 Y£ THOROUGHBRED. 

and others' being. Hence all such are diligently seek- 
ing for the truth concerning these all-important things, 
and they are more and more requiring that those who 
would instruct and guide them and theirs by voice or 
pen, or printing press, shall themselves know more, 
and teach more of these things of infinite import 
which belong to everyday life and being, and which 
are now generally, if not criminally, being ignored by 
them. The demand is being made, too, by all such 
truly enlightened men and women, and in unmistak- 
able terms, that they and their children shall no 
longer be fed on the ' chaff and husks ' of the mystic, 
metaphysical, superficial, and superstitious jargon of 
the schoolmen of the dark ages, but with what pertains 
to true life, growth, prosperity, and happiness in the 
living present. 

" Hence, also, we see everywhere humane, that is, 
truly human, men and women caring not alone for their 
own weal and that of their own children, but also for 
others' weal; yea, even for the weal of the millions 
yet to be. And while they cease not in seeking to 
alleviate or cure the ills afflicting themselves and 
others, their thoughts and acts are being directed more 
and more to the prevention of such ills, knowing fully 
the vast import in these things of the too oft unheeded 
truth in the trite and homely adage, that ' an ounce of 
prevention is worth a pound of cure.' " 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 3 1 

" But, my dear Senior, what of the masses of man- 
kind, and especially the congested masses, in large 
cities?" 

"The masses, my dear Juvenis, as I have before 
intimated, are rapidly coming to know in a most 
practical way that they were not born to be mere serfs. 
And see how rapidly in our own Britain, the heretofore 
partition walls between the so-styled classes and the 
masses are crumbling; and how often men and women, 
sprung from the long down-trodden masses, are coming 
to the front in every walk of life; and see, especially 
in many parts of the Western World, the almost total 
breaking up and overthrow of such false and invidious 
distinctions. 

" Men, too, are fast learning that the gospel of labor 
is the foremost of the bread and butter evangels ; that 
not mere rank, so-called, but real worth makes the 
true man. And the time is not far distant when these 
and like important truths will leaven the whole mass. 

( ' They are rapidly learning also, that the pedigree 
of worth is the only real patent of nobility ; that the 
true gentleman is of nature's handiwork, beautified 
and adorned by generous culture and upright conduct, 
whatever may be his rank in society or his occupation 
in life ; and that he who in some true sense is not a 
working man, is measurably a pariah — a useless or 
injurious creature— in the economy of true human 
society, and must be treated accordingly. 



32 Yn THOROUGHBRED. 

1 ' The whole realm of nature is one vast workshop, 
and, be it spoken with reverence, the God of Nature 
is the great Master Workman. Said the Son of Man : 
' L My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. ' 

' ' Yes, also, you pertinently ask : What of the con- 
gested masses of mankind in large cities ? 

' ' True, my dear Juvenis, the stern problem of the 
congested masses of shunted humanity in our great 
cities ever confronts us ; but, pray, tell me why such 
congested towns and cities should exist at all as they 
generally now are and have hitherto been amongst 
most peoples ? 

"As now constituted, they are not only not a 
necessity, but they are the greatest blemishes on our 
modern civilization. In fact, they are relics of 
barbarism and the great pest centers of the world. 

"Among all tolerably civilized peoples, intramural 
residence for safety has long ceased to be a necessity ; 
and now, in defensive warfare, large cities are gener- 
ally the greatest weaknesses of a nation. 

' ' Favorably situated emporiums for the reception, 
interchange, and distribution of home and foreign 
products are a necessity; and manufacturing and busi- 
ness centers are required for the general welfare and 
advantage; but, pray, why should they be or become 
places of residence or centers of congested population ? 

' ' There is clearly no necessity therefor, and human 
well-being demands radical reformation thereof. 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 33 

" An enormous percentage of the congested popula- 
tion of large cities inevitably becomes corrupt and cor- 
rupting. The very earth within and around generally 
becomes a mass of putrefaction. The waters are pol- 
luted, the atmosphere is constantly surcharged with 
much that is foul and pestilential, and multitudes of 
places of abode are saturated with uncleansable cor- 
ruption except, perchance, by conflagration. Such a 
city is a huge den of vice; a hotbed of disease; a vast 
pesthouse; and should not be allowed to exist in the 
rightly -ordered economy of an enlightened civilization. 
There is evidently an as yet unfathomed depth of all- 
important truth in the old but too often unheeded 
adage: * God made the country, but man made the 
city/ 

' ' A great emporium should not be a place of resi- 
dence. The chiefs of business may reside in the nearer 
suburbs as required, but all laborers and other em- 
ployees should, at the close of work-hours, be radiated 
to every required distance by cheap, safe, and expedi- 
tious transportation. Bating obvious necessities, none 
but the proper force for due guardianship and protection 
should be allowed to be within the city during the 
night. 

' ' The now tens of square miles of suburban I/mdon 
indicate the trend of events affecting large cities every- 
where. The increasing number of workingmen's 
villages, wherein often all the families of workmen 



34 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

have their own separate dwellings and gardens, is an- 
other omen of the happiest import in the same direc- 
tion. 

' ' Note also the modifying of the older and the 
modelling of the newer rising cities of America on the 
lines above indicated, and whereby a grand beginning 
is,being made in that fair land of hope, of promise, and 
of fruition, towards the solution of the hitherto fearful 
problem of what can be done for the amelioration of 
the now so generally congested masses of population 
in large cities. 

' ' Yes, my dear Juvenis, the total daily dispersion of 
the toiling city multitudes to rural homes, is what true 
humanity dictates and the common weal imperatively 
demands. ' ' 

' ' But, my dear Senior, what of the thousands who 
do not work?" 

( ' Well, my dear Juvenis, it is fast coming to be 
looked upon as an axiom by fairly civilized mankind, 
that he who can work and does not have some useful 
employment, is not only his own enemy, but that he 
is also an enemy of well-ordered human society, and 
must be dealt with accordingly. 

1 ' There is no mistaking the fearful truth of the 
s ancient proverbs : ' An idle brain is the devil's work- 
shop', and that 'idle hands do mischief;' and hence 
the individual and the public good alike demand the 
uppression of idle ness. 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 35 

1 ' All persons without honest employment and with- 
out known honest means of support are, in general, 
rightly deemed to be dangerous. And the now unhap- 
pily superabundant, but oft ineffectually employed, 
ways and means for their restraint, correction, or eradi- 
cation, if need be, should be rigorously exercised 
until such as a class cease to be. 

' ' Moreover, the known reproduction of the incur- 
ably diseased, and of criminals of every kind, must be 
brought to an end. This can and should be done in 
behoof of the common weal. 

" No civilized people would, for a day even, tolerate 
the known raising and letting loose, upon the com- 
munity of multitudinous rattlesnakes, nor can they 
with impunity suffer the known multitudinous repro- 
duction of criminally vicious, low-grade human ani- 
mals of a still more dangerous brood than even 'rattlers' 
are ; nor can the day be far distant when healthy, 
wholesome, well-regulated, progressive, and really 
beneficent human society will longer tolerate the known 
multitudinous procreation of radically diseased, imbe- 
cile, or other naturally worthless and injurious low- 
grade human animals of any class or kind. Salus populi 
suprema est lex! Individual liberty and so-called 
parental rights must be circumscribed and bounded by 
the common weal. 

' ' Moreover, a complete stop should forthwith be put 
to the really inhuman practice of England for genera- 



36 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

tions, of dumping much of her idle, imbecile, pauper, 
and criminal population upon the shores of her colonies 
or other thinly populated countries; and hence of stern 
necessity, England (not now to speak of other nations) 
will at no very distant day have squarely to face an 
* Australian rabbit plague ' of human overpopulation, 
and that, too, chiefly of the lowest grade. 

"And as to the necessitously unemployed, humane, 
ness readily suggests a multitude of practically avail- 
able ways by which thousands upon thousands of such 
could be, and should be, suitably employed with 
untold benefit to themselves, with profitable pecuniary 
returns to individuals, corporations, or to the govern- 
ment, and with incalculable benefit to the whole 
country. 

" One obvious way of all but limitless good may be 
stated as follows: This and almost any other kingdom 
or state, has areas of great extent of ' swamp ' or 
other now unproductive or unutilized lands which not 
infrequently are pestiferous even, and the real causes 
of many of the epidemic diseases which scourge and 
decimate the land. The public welfare imperatively 
demands that these pest and plague blotches on the 
otherwise fair face of the earth be removed. 

1 ' Thousands and tens of thousands of the honest 
unemployed everywhere could thus oftenjjbe given 
abundant work at good * living wages, ' in transforming 
such pestiferous or other now unproductive lands 



MAN AS AN ANIMAI,. 37 

into the most fertile and fruitful portions of the whole 
country, and thus in health and wealth more than 
amply repay all the pounds, shillings, and pence 
expended thereon. Many of those thus employed 
would also in good part thereby become fitted to 
become, at home or abroad, tillers of the soil, an 
employment which should more and more be deemed 
to be among the best and noblest occupations of man. 

1 ' Many other like advantageous and beneficial ways 
of honest remunerative employment of multitudes, 
often to a great extend in enforced idleness, will 
readily suggest themselves to the humanely thoughtful 
and well-minded. 

* ' Nor with us and others also is the choice volun- 
tary. The inevitable is, betterment of the individual, 
betterment of his material environments, betterment 
of society, and betterment of government —or chaotic 
anarchy. It is radical improvement or decay. 

' ' A future Nigritian archaeologist, standing on the 
ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral, surveying the desolation 
of our great modern Babylon, is not a mere figment of 
the imagination, nor is the lesson to be derived there- 
from of local application only. Change but the 
' terms ' of the ' fable, ' and the ' moral ' applies not 
only to us and ours, but to you and yours. Be it 
remembered, too, that very few even of the sites of the 
great * Babylonian ' cities of antiquity are now known, 
or much more than known, 



38 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

"The great, the not infrequently vital problem of 
' what shall be done ' for and with the multitudes of 
the unemployed almost everywhere, and with the now 
congested masses of humanity in all large cities, can 
and must be humanely and satisfactorily solved; and 
it is no day dream to predict that the generation of true 
men and women in the van of the fast approaching 
20th Century will see the glorious work more than 
well begun. 

' ' The magnetic pulsations of 'the good time coming' 
are now felt everywhere, and the humane and well- 
constituted are ' looking forward ' thereto with well- 
grounded, joyous anticipations.* 

" But, my dear Juvenis, amidst the grand lessons of 
these broad, pleasing, and certain generalizations, full, 
indeed, of the promise of gladsome human fruition, be 
it never forgotten that the foundation thoughts and 
principles sought to be set forth at our present inter- 
view, must at all times and under all circumstances 
ever be borne in mind and honestly carried out in every- 
day life; that the unchanged and unchangeable facts 
are that all real human improvement, and all true 
human progress must be based upon and accordant 
with the fixed laws and the slow and sure processes of 
beneficent nature; and that the real starting-point in 
the race of human improvement is with me; then with 
me and mine; and that inseparably connected with us 
and ours, are you and yours. And thus on, from the 



MAN AS AN ANIMAL. 39 

center to the circumference of human relationship, 
never forgetting the all-important fact that the first 
and foremost all in all, of individual and aggregate 
humanity is involved in an honest answer to the ever- 
living question: which is The) rbal thoroughbred? 
And how it may come to pass that man of every 
species may become and continue to be bodily, electric- 
ally, instinctively, mentally, socially, morally, and 
Spiritually the most perfect and perfective ' after his 
kind?' » 



SECOND INTERVIEW. 



(41) 



To know thyself and to govern thyself accordingly is thS 
acme of human knowledge and duty. 



to) 



SECOND INTERVIEW. 

MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY AND AN ELECTRO- 
TELEGRAPHIC MACHINE. 

11 Yes, my dear Juvenis, it is a vitally important fact 
that man is a magnetic battery and an electro-tele- 
graphic machine, and that the same is true of other 
animals, ' after their kind.' " 

Such was the introductory statement of my good 
friend, the Senior, at an interview kindly granted by 
him shortly after that at which he gave expression to 
so many striking thoughts on ' ' human betterment, ' ' 
in reply to the unique query: "Which is the real 
thoroughbred? " 

"Yes," continued the Senior, "the brain is the 
great central battery, the ganglia are the relays or 
sub-centers, and the nerves are the 'wires.' 

1 ' The battery is charged with the electricity set free 
by the chemical changes constantly going on in the 
living animal during the processes of digestion, res- 
piration, assimilation, decomposition, and the like, 
and also by absorption from exterior bodies, animate 
and inanimate. 

"And, my dear Juvenis, another all-important 

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44 YK THOROUGHBRED. 

fundamental law of our animal being is that ' males * 
are ' positive, ' electrically, and ' females ' are ' nega- 
tive ;' and you need scarcely be reminded of the laws 
of electricity (both in animate and in inanimate bodies) 
that 'unlikes,' that is, 'positives' and 'negatives,' 
attract; and that 'likes,' that is, positives and posi- 
tives, and negatives and negatives, repel each other; 
and also that two bodies (or individuals) alike electric- 
ally, may be said to be ( neutral, ' that is, they neither 
attract nor repel each other. ' ' 

* * But, my dear Senior, may I inquire upon what 
known or demonstrable facts you base the somewhat 
startling statement that males are positive and females 
negative electrically?" 

"Assuredly, my dear Juvenis; and to make satis- 
factory reply to your pertinent query, you need but 
recall your own amusement in the school or lecture- 
room during the simplest experiments with the elec- 
trical machine. When standing upon an insulated 
stool, you noted with intense interest the electrical 
attractions and repulsions when the knuckle was 
presented to the pithball suspended from either end of 
the electrical machine, and that when this simple 
experiment was repeated by pupils of 'both sexes,' 
it would be ocularly shown beyond all peradventure 
that males are electrically positive and female negative; 
and thus, and in many other like ways, may be demon- 
strated the existence and operations of some of the 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 45 

most fundamental facts and factors in the organization 
and in the hourly and daily life of every human being. 

" It is, however, important to note that some females 
are relatively positive to some males, and vice versa. 
It is also an important collateral fact that the electrical 
condition of each individual varies greatly from time 
to time, as his conditions and surroundings differ, as 
may be shown by like experiments; and also that indi- 
viduals who are by nature positive electrically, may 
temporarily become, both by internal and external 
influences, extremely positive, and that those naturally 
negative may temporarily become extremely negative. 

* ' It is also, my dear Juvenis, demonstrably certain 
that the quantity of electricity existent within, and 
emanating from, each individual may vary greatly 
from hour to hour and from day to day, and that the 
quantity and activity coincide with the age, growth, 
development, and decay of the individual; and that 
they are also inseparably connected with, and depend- 
ent upon, the bodily make, sustenance, health, habits, 
material environments, and the like. 

"It is also a fundamental fact of infinite import to 
know and practically to appreciate, that the electricity 
of each individual male or female has a ' peculiar ' 
(that is, its 'own') quality springing from and depend- 
ent upon inheritance, nurture, mental, moral, and 
1 spiritual ' pabulum, self-direction, reflection, compan- 
ionship, and social and other like surroundings; and 



46 Yn THOROUGHBRED. 

hence it is that the electricity, or ' magnetism,' of one 
person, male or female, is physically, intellectually, and 
morally, healthy, pure, and elevating; and that which 
inheres in and emanates from another is, physically 
and otherwise, depravingly and degradingly unhealthy 
and impure, according as the individual is physically, 
instinctively, intellectually, morally, and otherwise, 
inherently good, bad, or indifferent. 

1 ' Moreover, my dear Juvenis, it is an important cor- 
related fact ever to be borne in mind, that each indi- 
vidual is constantly surrounded by his own peculiar 
electrical atmosphere, whose activity, quantity, and 
quality are concordant in all things with the real char- 
acter and characteristics of the individual." 

' ' My dear Senior, pray, intimate upon what known 
facts you base the important statement that every 
person is surrounded by an electrical atmosphere 
emanating from him? ' ' 

"Your important query, my dear Juvenis, is fully 
and satisfactorily answered by the simplest experiments 
with the electrometer, which, by being gradually 
brought near on every side, ocularly demonstrates not 
only the presence of electricity all around every 'body' 
in an active electrical state, but with a marked degree 
of certainty measures the quantity of free electricity at 
given distances from the body. And in this respect, as 
in most others, the analogy is perfect between animate 
and inanimate bodies of all kinds. 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTKRY. 47 

"Moreover, my dear Juvenis, it may in brief be 
truly affirmed without fear of intelligent contradiction, 
that electricity is the vital force, the motive power in 
man and in all other animals; and that the quantity, 
activity, and quality of the electricity generated within, 
and emanating from, every human being, are the 
1 natural products ' of his organization and correspond 
with the sex and with the grade of the human animal, 
whether it be ill-bred, neutral, or thoroughbred; and 
hence, as are the status and character of the man or 
woman, so and such are his electrical influences and 
effects upon all others with whom he associates or with 
whom he may be en rapport. And such also, ' after 
their kind,' are the converse or reciprocal effects or 
influences of others upon himself. And it is, more- 
over, a fact of the greatest import that the electricity 
thus transmitted by one and absorbed by another 
is measurably retained by the recipient, and affects him 
for good or ill according to the quantity and quality of 
the electricity absorbed." 

" But, my dear Senior, how comes it to pass that 
these all-important facts, as you call them, have not 
hitherto been more generally known and utilized for 
individual good and for the common weal?" 

" Ah, my dear Juvenis, as well ask why the identity 
of lightning and electricity was not demonstrated until 
Franklin's day, and why that grand discovery with all 
its beneficent outcomes might not have been made for 



48 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

another generation, perchance, but for the fortunate 
shower of rain (during his experiment) by which the 
string of the immortal kite, flown from Philadelphia 
Common, was changed from a dry non-conductor of 
electricity into a moist and good conductor; and hence, 
when, after repeated failures before the shower, he 
again, after the rainfall, brought his knuckle close to 
the iron doorkey tied near the lower end of the kite- 
string, sparks of Promethean fire from heaven were 
manifest ; and thus was made known one of the 
grandest discoveries of science. 

"Oh, yes, my dear Juvenis, the facts and laws of 
human electricity (and others like) have been well 
known and beneficently used by the enlightened few 
from the remotest antiquity. But it is only in our 
own age, as it were, and among some peoples only, 
that man, in general, has been ' permitted' to study 
nature, her facts and laws, and to make practical appli- 
cation thereof to man and to human affairs in everyday 
life ; and few know better than yourself how many emi- 
nent men have inhumanly suffered (and that, too, in 
the name of ' religion') because they dared to proclaim 
the important discoveries made by them in natural 
science. 

1 ' But, my dear Juvenis, to return to our theme, ever 
bear in mind that the main facts of inanimate and 
animate electricity are identical ; that the laws of both 
are uniform ; and that the different names, not always 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 4Q 

fittingly used in referring to such, but serve to desig- 
nate the seemingly different manifestations of the 
same electrical force, whether in the animate or inani- 
mate world. 

1 ' Yes, truly, bear in mind and make intelligent 
application of these and other like fundamental facts 
and laws of animate and inanimate electricity, and you 
have the real clue to enable you to comprehend most 
of the momentous facts and affairs of everyday human 
life and experience, and to unravel and explain by 
natural facts and laws the so-called ' hidden mysteries' 
of mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism, clairvoy- 
ance, second sight, prevision, mind reading, fortune tell- 
ing, witchcraft, spiritism, diabolism, et id genus mne, 
and thus aid to abolish and blot out many ignoble 
and enthralling human superstitions. 

" First, then, all interpersonal human attractions or 
repulsions are electrical (or, if the term be preferred, 
magnetic) whether between the same or opposite sexes; 
whether direct or reciprocal ; whether corporeal, in- 
stinctive, mental, moral, or what is called spiritual ; 
and whether in quality (or kind) healthful or unhealth- 
ful, pure or impure, elevating or depraving. 

' ' Among the lower animals it is the one of the most 
powerful bodily make and the most positive, electric- 
ally, which leads the drove or flock, and challenged 
headship is generally determined by a fight to the 



50 ire THOROUGHBRED. 

death ; amongst the lads in a neighborhood, or the 
boys at school, the same ultimate facts are ever and 
everywhere manifest ; among adult human beings of 
all fairly civilized grades it is those highly positive, 
electrically, who are the originating, guiding, control- 
ling, and final force among ' their fellows' ; all other 
ways and means being but collateral or concomitant. 

' ' Among the coarsest and lowest grades of human 
animals, and among the highest and best-cultured thor- 
oughbreds, all the sexual and other like interpersonal 
influences are purely electrical ; all direct effects and 
reciprocal interchange of passion, motive, thought, pur- 
pose, and desire are electrical in their origin, transmis- 
sion, intercommunication and effects ; and they are all 
fundamentally identical with the known facts, laws, 
and effects of the same all-pervading electricity of the 
inanimate world, modified only in qualities, manifesta- 
tions, and effects because of its origin in living organ- 
isms, the degree of intelligence and the voluntary or 
involuntary will inherent therein guiding and control- 
ling its multifarious and important operations and 
manifestations. 

1 * Proximity or contact are potent factors in the 
manifestations and effects of human electricity, but 
remoteness of polar electrical centers does not break 
the electrical connection of persons positively and 
negatively en rapport; although by transmission over 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 5 1 

great distances, varying degrees of loss by transmis- 
sion may, and often do, take place in like manner as 
in transmission by telegraph or telephone. 

"And further to particularize: No one, not even the 
most superficial observer can have failed to note the 
diametrical differences in different substances as media 
for the transmission of electricity and light. Copper, 
for instance, is an all but perfect conductor of elec- 
tricity, but it is a non-conductor of light. Glass, in thin 
plates, readily transmits light of every kind and 
quality, but it is a non-conductor of electricity, and so 
of a multitude of substances in contrast as above. 

"In general, it may be stated that all substances 
capable of absorbing and retaining moisture are, in a 
moist state, good conductors of electricity; but in a 
thoroughly dry state they are non-conductors. The 
human body, the living tree, the moist air, the damp 
earth and many other like substances are familiar 
instances of good conductors of electricity." 

While deeply interested in the enumeration of these 
specific facts and general principles, I begged my good 
friend, the Senior, to be pleased to point out other 
familiar manifestations and effects of the electrical 
force in everyday life. 

"With the greatest pleasure and satisfaction, my 
dear Juvenis, and the more so, because, methinks, 
your pertinent request intimates that you intelligently 
apprehend the supposed ' secret,' the real fons et origo 



52 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

of not only all direct and reciprocal human influences, 
but of the great energizing force pervading all animate 
and inanimate being. 

1 ' And to make your query in good part answer 
itself, Have you not this very day even had your 
attention arrested by the markedly different impressions 
produced upon you by your 'hand-shakes,' not only 
with your acquaintances, but especially with strangers 
to whom you were introduced ? Oh, yes, that of one 
was coarse, hard, and repellant; that of another was 
warm, vigorous, and impulsive; that of a third was 
flabby, lifeless, and chilling; and that of another was 
firm, nerveful, and gratefully thrilling; and so on, 
varying throughout the list. Thus in your varied 
' hand- shakings ' was conveyed to you a direct electro- 
telegraphic communication of not uncertain import 
regarding the character and characteristics of your 
acquaintances. 

' ' This conscious experience of the absorption of 
electricity emanating from another constitutes the 
' sixth ' human ' sense,' which has been the subject of 
so much speculation, and which may fittingly be called 
the magnetic or ' electrical sense. ' 

' ' Moreover, my dear Juvenis, all observant persons 
are cognizant of the peculiar electrical effects produced 
upon them by the presence of certain individuals, and 
of which they often afterwards make remarks to their 
friends and acquaintances. The impressions thus 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 53 

received may frequently vary from, or even may be in 
conflict with, the impressions received through the 
senses of sight and hearing, because the visage of one 
person may be comely to the eye, and the voice may 
be soft to the ear, and yet the electrical impression 
may be anything but agreeable ; in fact, it may be 
positively bad. And again, the face of another may 
lack in beauty, the form in symmetry, and the voice 
may be unmusical, and yet the presence of such an one 
may be a conscious benediction. 

1 ' And further, my dear Juvenis, even the unseen 
approach of an individual may, and often does, electric- 
ally impress his friends or acquaintances in whose 
thoughts he had not before been for many a day, 
month, or year, and yet his appearance is welcomed 
with the exclamation : \ My dear A. B., I was just 
thinking of you !' and no wonder, for their electrical 
atmospheres had already commingled, and he had just 
received an electro -telegraphic message directly com- 
municated to him by the proximity of his friend (while 
yet unseen) ; and hence we have the scientific explan- 
ation of the old, old adage : ' ' Think of the deil and 
he appears,' or, as paraphrased by the polite : ' Think 
of the lord and he is near. ' And not only so, but you 
yourself (as also thousands of others) have not infre- 
quently experienced the fact that, having entered a 
room in total darkness, you have at once become con- 



54 YE THOROUGHBRED 

scious of the unseen presence of some person therein 
into whose friendly or unfriendly electrical atmosphere 
you had come, as the facts quickly verified. 

"And while, assuredly, proximity or contact may 
be said to be an important element in the more obvious 
of human electrical effects and manifestations, yet it is 
equally true in animate and inanimate electricity, that 
distance, however remote, by earth or sea, only affects, 
proportionately, the electric connection and power of 
electro-telegraphic communication between persons 
electrically en rapport or in electrical affinity with each 
other, such as exists between the well-mated husband 
and wife, the mutually well-affectioned parent and 
child, the meetly affianced, or between a David and a 
Jonathan. 

' ' Distance does not break the electrical connection 
between such positives and negatives even though 
facile electric communication may not infrequently be 
interrupted by the ill condition or abnormal disturb- 
ance of nature's unbroken media of the land, the 
water, and the circumfluent ether. 

' ' The proofs of such and such like inter-electro- 
telegraphic communication between persons near and 
far remote abound everywhere. A multitude of intel- 
ligent witnesses can, if they would, testify thereto from 
their own personal experiences. The traditions of 
many families can make known the instantaneous 
receipt of such electrical brain messages from friends 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 55 

and other dear ones in distant lands even, conveying 
exact intelligence of transpiring events both sad and 
joyful; and such occurrences are often impressed upon 
the brain of the recipient, not merely as an ordinary 
telegraphic or telephonic message, but as an illuminated 
scenic picture or panoramic vision — a thing as yet only 
surmised by advanced electricians as being among the 
potentialities or possibilities of inanimate telephonic, 
telegraphic, or electro-teleoptical science. 

" In fact, my dear Juvenis, the world is full of proofs 
showing that persons in an abnormally negative electri- 
cal state, may and do constantly, and even indiscrimin- 
ately, receive such electrical impressions and commu- 
nications from the brains of those far and near who are 
in an abnormally positive electrical condition, and 
whose thoughts thus transmitted by them and received 
by others, may be their own or of themselves, their 
own notions or the notions or knowledge of others; and, 
strangely enough, such wholly mundane communica- 
tions are by many attributed to supra-mundane or 
infra-mundane sources." 

' ' But, my dear Senior, are not your explanations of 
acknowledged facts at variance with those generally 
taught and believed regarding such and such like facts 
and experiences of everyday life ? ' ' 

' ' Assuredly so, my dear Juvenis, except among the 
truly enlightened. The fact is that this old world of 
ours is but in part, and in some things only slowly, 



56 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

emerging from its superstitious barbarism and from its 
childish ignorance of the simple fundamental facts 
and laws of animate and inanimate nature, and of their 
all-important application to themselves and others; and 
what is far worse even, and of which you need 
scarcely be reminded, there always have been and still 
are large classes of men professing better things, who 
fatten upon the ignorance, the superstitions, and the 
inborn and cultivated credulity of their fellow men; 
and, as a means to that end, they persistently decry all 
1 knowledge ' except what is imparted by themselves, 
or which they see fit to have imparted to the multitudes 
still under their domination, and who, above all things, 
put forth every effort to withhold from the masses of 
mankind a scientific knowledge of the actual facts and 
laws of nature, and of universal nature within and 
around them, well knowing that by the spread of real 
light and true knowledge their ' occupation ' would 
soon be gone, and their ' rich perennial harvests ' pro- 
duced by human ignorance, superstition, and credulity 
would be ingathered by them nevermore. 

"But, my dear Juvenis, returning to our theme, a 
gentleman of your varied and extensive information 
needs not be reminded that ever and anon there are 
persons who, in total darkness and with their eyes 
shut, do read aloud from the pages of an open book ; 
or who in like manner will tell the correct time by an 
encased watch placed anywhere around their heads ; 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 57 

and who without the slightest previous knowledge or 
information on the part of himself or on the part of 
those immediately around them, will describe the fur- 
niture and the occupants of an adjoining room, be the 
partition wall ever so thick ; and thus set forth one of 
a multitude of like facts familiar to very many observ- 
ant and intelligent men and women; and of the indubit- 
able proofs of which manifestations it is wholly need- 
less to speak. 

1 ' Now, satisfactorily and scientifically to explain the 
foregoing, it is but necessary to bear in mind some of 
the electrical facts and laws heretofore intimated ; and 
by comparison the more fully to understand the same, 
it will doubtless be well to refer to the exercise of the 
sense of sight. 

' ' Height is the medium by which impressions of out- 
ward objects are conveyed through the admirable and 
well-adapted structure of the eye to the brain within, 
in the ordinary operations of ' seeing' what is external 
and within the natural range of vision, or when artifi- 
cially aided, as by the telescope, the microscope, or 
otherwise. 

1 ' In total darkness and in the non-use of the eyes, 
as above noted, electricity is the medium by which 
impressions of extraneous objects are conveyed to the 
brain of the human or other animal. 

1 ' Among the varied media through which light of 
any sort or kind passes with facility is a thin plate of 



58 Y£ THOROUGHBRED. 

pure glass, which, by thus readily transmitting ordinary 
light, is said to be transparent ; and a multitude of 
other substances through which light does not thus 
pass with facility, or not at all, are said to be opaque or, 
as the case may be, semi-opaque (terms, by the way, 
which, like many others, are often used to cover up no 
small amount of human ignorance). 

" Now, it is well known that glass, as noted 
above, while it is a good conductor or transmitter of 
ordinary light, is a non-conductor or non-transmitter 
of electricity ; and on the other hand, earth, most 
metals, and all moist substances which are good con- 
ductors of electricity, are, in general, non-conductors of 
light ; and hence it is not the presence or the absence 
of light, but the electric state (whether positive or neg- 
ative) of the imparting and receiving bodies, and the 
conducting or non-conducting character of the medium 
of transmission, which determine the communication 
of impressions or other effects from outward objects 
to the brain within ; and hence, in the instances above 
cited (and in a multitude of others like), the direct 
communication of impressions of outward objects upon 
the brain is by direct electrical transmission through 
the skull — the partition wall, however thick — or 
through any other conductor of electricity ; and, there- 
fore, it is assuredly far more easy of explanation and 
comprehension than is that of seeing by the transmis- 
sion of light through the complicated machinery of the 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTKRY. 59 

eye and the optic nerve. In fact, my dear Juvenis, 
the ultimate brain impression received through ' seeing 
with the eyes' by the medium of light, is clearly the 
resultant effect of the electricity inherent in the light 
itself. 

' ' And hence, that a person in a state of abnormal 
electrical receptivity should thus, in total darkness 
(that is, in the absence of light) , see clearly through 
solid and opaque substances (if good conductors of 
electricity) is not a so-called mystery, but it is the mani- 
fest result of the operation and effects of electrical facts 
and laws now becoming fairly well known and under- 
stood, more especially by experts in electrical science. 

" It is also clearly obvious that all such human elec- 
trical effects and manifestations must necessarily have 
markedly distinguishing characteristics because of their 
origin in living, sentient human organisms, and that 
these characteristics are bodily, instinctively, mentally, 
morally, and ' spiritually ' identical with the real 
character and characteristics (whether good, bad, or 
indifferent) of the individual or individuals in whom 
said electrical force is generated (or set free) and from 
whom it emanates. 

1 ' Moreover, my dear Juvenis, it but needs to bear in 
mind these and analogous fundamental facts and oper- 
ations of human electricity very clearly to comprehend 
what, of late, has popularly become known as ' mind 
reading,' 



6o ye Thoroughbred. 

' ' This important and interesting manifestation pre- 
supposes contiguity and healthful concordant electrical 
conditions in the persons mutually concerned. Contact 
by hand even is not necessarily essential, although, in 
some instances, it measurably facilitates the electrical 
conveyance of the dominant brain impression from one 
individual to the other if in a condition of greater 
electrical receptivity, while if these conditions and 
mutual relationships are of insufficient electrical oppol 
sition, the experiment will wholly fail, or at least fal- 
short of complete success. Nor should it be forgotten 
that the general bodily health, the greater or less 
advanced stage of food digestion, the humidity and 
electrical condition of the atmosphere, the concordant 
or antagonistic condition of the on-lookers, and such 
like concurrent or cross-current circumstances and 
surroundings, are factors of especial import in all such 
human electro-telegraphy, just as in like manner, in 
everyday telegraphic operations, the chemical condi- 
tion of the battery, the working perfection of the 
machine, unbroken connections, the presence or absence 
of cross-currents, the state of the atmosphere, and such 
like, are essential conditions in the transmission of 
ordinary telegraphic messages. 

" Hence, my dear Juvenis, duly considering the 
many known identical facts and correspondencies 
between ordinary and vital telegraphy, the analogies 
are obviously all but complete even to the moderately 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 6 1 

informed or ordinarily observant, the differences or 
seeming divergencies being wholly attributable to the 
fact that the one is of inanimate origin and of mechan- 
ical operation, and the other is of animate evolvement 
and of operation and manifestation by and through the 
vital human mechanism ; but both alike are subjects of 
human research, knowledge, application, direction, 
control, and improved and improving evolvement and 
beneficent use. 

1 ' Mind reading is, therefore, no occult mystery ; but 
it is simply one of the many known forms of inter- 
human telegraphy, the capacity for which is possessed 
in a greater or less degree by all human beings (and 
other animals), and, like other human capabilities, it is 
a matter of inheritance and is susceptible of develop- 
ment, culture, and utilization. 

1 ' In fact, my dear Juvenis, it may be affirmed that 
those persons who become preeminently successful 
in dealing with their fellow men, are by inheritance 
and practice notable mind readers ; and of such it may 
truthfully be said that, in addition to their other marked 
capabilities, this faculty of reading the minds and char- 
acters of others is the master key of their success in 
life. Of such leaders of men it is often rightfully said 
that they ' see' people (even strangers to them) 
' through and through' ; and hence chiefly comes their 
preeminent success. 

1 ' And, my dear Juvenis, anticipating your obvious 



62 Y# THOROUGHBRED. 

interrogation, I proceed to remark that, stript of all 
vulgar mystifying circumstances and accessories, the 
historic and still popular art of * fortune telling' is 
(when honest) nothing more than a form of ' mind 
reading' or interhuman electro- telegraphy, and of like 
simple scientific explanation and comprehension. 

' ' The fortune teller needs but be of a temperament 
of unusual electrical receptivity, generally highly or 
extremely negative ; and hence the experts among 
such are mostly women who, as has been before inti- 
mated, are by nature electrically negative (ofttimes 
extremely so) to persons of the male sex. And when 
in a comatose or partially comatose state, they are 
markedly receptive of electrical brain impressions trans- 
mitted from persons of their own sex even, all of 
which, as I have heretofore said, is ocularly shown by 
the simplest electrical experiments, and it also becomes 
demonstrably clear to all intelligent observers of these 
and such like operations and manifestations of vital 
electricity and human electro-telegraphy. 

1 ' It is also well known to the observant few, that many 
individuals, some men, but mostly women, are by 
inheritance (and ofttimes by culture) strongly predis- 
posed to a comatose (sleepy, lethargic, hypnotic) con- 
dition of the general bodily functions, and that this 
state or condition which so greatly facilitates the oper- 
ations of their cumulating electric brain force, may be 
produced from without by the mesmerist or hypnotist 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 63 

or it may be wholly self- induced by the (honest and 
capable) fortune teller (that is, mind reader) ; and no 
intelligent observer needs be told that this inherited 
capability (like all others) is susceptible of marked 
development by usage and culture. 

' 'The fortune telling modus operandi "is generally about 
as follows: The person seeking to have his ' fortune ' 
told is ushered into the presence of the ' seer, ' pays 
the required fee, is seated near and generally in front 
of the ' teller, ' who (often with certain movements, 
not always intended for the mystification of the 
'seeker') appears to look steadily into, say, a some- 
what large cylindrical piece of glass; or, with fixed 
look, stares at some ' point ' more or less remote, and 
in a short time the comatose or hypnotic state is induced 
in the seer, or teller; the electrical connection is now 
complete, the 'teller' and 'seeker' are en rapport, 
when, presto, the ' fortune teller ' (that is, the recipient 
of the brain impressions, or, if you will, the thoughts 
of the fortune seeker) proceeds to describe the elec- 
trical impressions thus conveyed to her brain from the 
brain of the seeker as they pass in panoramic view from 
the earliest impressions (or remembrances of the fortune 
seeker) to those of the present, and also of the future, but 
generally of those humanly known to the seeker (such 
as marriage by him, if then affianced, or of existing 
thoughts, wishes, purposes, and the like) , and all this, 
of course, to the utter amazement, if not the horror, of 



64 YK THOROUGHBRED. 

the unsophisticated fortune seeker whom the ' seer ' 
had never met before, and of whom she did not have 
and could not have had any means of previous knowl- 
edge of any kind from others. 

' ' Of the of ttimes absolute correctness of such pano- 
ramic ' revelations ' of personal history by so-called 
fortune-telling seers, there are and have been a multi- 
tude of unimpeachable witnesses (as is well known to 
not a few), and, indeed, there are many who can truth- 
fully aver that ' the seer told the story of my life far 
better than I could have told it myself; in fact, she 
really told me all that ever I did ! ' 

' ' But as the spurious or forged necessarily presup- 
poses a genuine original, and since for personal gain 
the unscrupulous take the risks of making or passing 
the former for the latter, so likewise the world is full 
of spurious fortune tellers who possess none of the 
inherited or acquired capabilities of the genuine mind 
reader or of the hypnotic seer, and so they fatten on 
the credulity and ignorance of low-grade human beings 
of every class. 

" Moreover, there are conditions and circumstances 
(such as, for instance, during the active digestion of, 
perchance, an over- abundant meal) when even the 
genuine fortune-telling seer cannot self-induce the 
hypnotic state required in order to become perfectly en 
rapport (or in affinity), electrically, with the fortune 
seeker, but yet who, tempted by the fee, ' tells' of the 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 65 

unseen and unknown; and hence ' the victim' justly 
declares that the story thus told was mere guesswork, 
and very poor at that. ' 

"Thus it is obvious, my dear Juvenis, that this 
form of mind reading commonly called ' fortune telling ' 
is no metaphysical mystery, no so-called magic art, no 
supernatural manifestation, but that it is the natural 
outcome or resultant of unvarying natural laws govern- 
ing the electrical transmission or transference of im- 
pressions from the brain of one person to that of 
another; in short, it is mental c vision' (or ' seeing') by 
the medium of human electricity. 

1 ' In fact, also, not only such mind reading as the 
foregoing, but also all intravision (or the mental 
inspection of one's own unfaded photographic brain 
impressions) and all intervision (or the mental inspec- 
tion of each other's brain impressions) are among the 
highest and best capabilities (by inheritance and by 
culture) of the noblest thoroughbreds of humankind; 
and to all such comes the felicity accruing from obedi- 
ence to the divine command, ' Know thyself, and 
know thy neighbor also ;' for among such fully devel- 
oped and truly enlightened men and women it is true, 
in a very large sense, that each may know others even 
as he himself is known by them. 

' ' Moreover, my dear Juvenis, since there are ' causes' 
of all kinds constantly in active operation which will 
at a near or more remote period assuredly culminate in 



66 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

certain corresponding ' events,' and as there are 
' thoughts' being entertained and ' plans' being secretly 
formed for the accomplishment of some ' end' at an 
intended hour or day, it is, therefore, easy of compre- 
hension that a person of extreme electric receptivity 
may and, in fact, will of necessity become electrically 
en rapport with such exterior and focusing ' causes, ' 
and with such ' thoughts' and ' plans' existing in the 
brain of another individual near or remote, and, con- 
sequently, he will have what is called a ' presentiment' 
of what is about to take place ; or, if in a comatose 
state, he will describe such 'future event' whose sub- 
sequent occurrence will correspond with what is called 
the 'prediction' of the 'seer.' In this even, as you 
clearly perceive, there is no 'mystery.' " 

Becoming more and more astonished at the remark- 
able utterances of my friend, the Senior, I ventured to 
interrupt him by soliciting his views of the ' ' myste- 
ries" of "mesmerism," or, as it is now so frequently 
designated , ' ' hypnotism. ' ' 

" Your query, my dear Juvenis, is most pertinent, as 
this important subject belongs to the same category of 
numerous allied human electro-magnetic manifestations 
as those just referred to. 

"Successful mesmerism, so-called, presupposes the 
operator to be electrically of an extremely positive 
temperament (or constitution), and is generally of the 
male sex, and the ' subject ' to be mesmerized, to be 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 67 

extremely negative electrically, is generally of the 
female sex or a male of markedly feminine character- 
istics. The adroit operator readily selects from a mixed 
assembly a fitting negative subject, who, when duly 
posed on the dais, and after some facilitating manipu- 
lations, soon falls into an electrical coma, and shortly 
the hypnotic condition of the subject is complete. 

"The mesmerist, or hypnotist, has now absolute elec- 
trical control of his 'victim. ' His volitions become those 
of the hypnotized; as he wills so the ' victim ' wills, 
feels, thinks, speaks, and acts. What is good, may 
alone thus be willed, but the ' evil ' possibilities are 
appalling to contemplate ! If the hypnotist is healthy, 
pure, and well-cultured physically, instinctively, ment- 
ally, morally, and otherwise, and if his motives, ends, 
and aims are pure and rightful, the electrical effects 
produced upon the person hypnotized may, and often 
will, be correspondingly good and beneficent; but if 
the hypnotist be of an opposite character, then woe 
betide the polluted and ofttimes ruined victim ! Thus 
one of the best of human capabilities is often abused 
beyond measure; and hence why, in general, the prac- 
tice of the art of hypnotism should everywhere be 
put under the restraints of law, because skilled and 
expert practitioners can alone, in general, safely utilize 
it for good; and because, when used for evil purposes, 
it is the ' black art ' of human demons. 

( ' It is important also to bear in mind that the hypno- 



68 Y3 THOROUGHBRED 

tist can exert but lithe influence upon an individual of 
an equal or superior positive state electrically. Will- 
power, too, is a potent factor in resisting hypnotic 
influences, but a person having once been completely 
hypnotized may remain a facile victim to be enserfed 
by the same manipulator, or become more easily sub- 
ject to another. Individuals not having been com- 
pletely dehypnotized not infrequently remain in a 
semideranged state for a considerable time. When the 
'mesmerist' is a coarse, low-grade, ill-bred human 
animal, the mesmerized ' may truthfully be said to 
have become ' demoniacally possessed. ' If, on the 
contrary, the mesmerist (or hypnotist) be a thorough- 
bred and well-cultured human being, the hypnotized 
will, in general, become possessed of a new force, 
healthful, uplifting, and beneficent. 

" Moreover, my dear Juvenis, in this category be- 
long the so-called art of 'witchcraft,' the 'evil eye,' and 
the like. 

1 ' To be a so-called 'witch' but presupposes an indi- 
vidual, male or female, to be of a temperament abnor- 
mally electric ; and hence (bearing in mind and 
making due application of the simple fundamental facts 
and principles heretofore enunciated) all that pertains 
(or ever did, or can pertain) to so-called 'bewitching,' 
or the like, is of easy natural explanation and com- 
plete scientific comprehension. If this not uncommon 
abnormal inheritance of the electric force is specially 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 69 

manifested through the optic nerves (the sense of see- 
ing), it is called the 'evil eye'; if it is chiefly muscular, 
it is said to be of the powerful 'demon' ; and if con- 
centered in, and operating through, the fore and upper 
portions of the brain, its manifestations are called the 
vaticinations of the 'seer/ or of the 'prophet/ reveal- 
ing heavenly or infernal visions or communications ; 
and thus on, as might be enumerated to 'the end of the 
chapter'; and hence the all but endless number of 
manifestations attributed by the ignorant, superstitious 
multitude to extrahuman and extramundane influ- 
ences are naturally accounted for, since all such are in 
and of the individual themselves, of their own im- 
mediate surroundings ; or, it may be, that they are of 
their terrestrial and even stellar electrical environments, 
according as the individual by natural or acquired re- 
ceptivity or relationship may or may not be en rapport 
with the varied states and conditions of the surround- 
ing electric forces of animate and inanimate nature of 
every grade, sort, or quality, whether of human (or 
other animal), vegetable, or of inanimate matter near 
or far, immediate or remote. \ 

"Moreover, my dear Juvenis, you, doubtless, like 
many others, can readily recall instances, perchance 
not a few, of individuals of such an extremely abnor- 
mal electric state, positive or negative, that occasional 
surcharges of electricity transmitted tofand fro between 
them and surrounding material objects, have produced 



70 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

startling effects quite analogous to the like manifesta- 
tions and effects of ordinary electrical discharges be- 
tween inanimate bodies in extremely opposite electrical 
states, and, in a small way, quite analogous to the 
greater effects produced by aerial and terrestrial electric 
discharges and disturbances. And, in passing, it may 
fittingly be remarked that the name 'witch' thus ap- 
plied to persons of such abnormal electrical condition, 
originally denoted an individual of ' peculiar knowl- 
edge,' but as the natural and scientific explanation of 
such manifestations was beyond the 'wit' or 'ken' of 
the superstitious teachers of the superstitious multi- 
tude, and since it furnished another potent means of 
putting and keeping the ignorant masses of mankind 
in mental and 'spiritual' serfdom, all such persons of 
abnormal electrical development were pronounced to 
be possessed of 'demons,' and in unnumbered instances 
were inhumanly put to death, to the everlasting shame 
and disgrace of humankind. And, in further illustra- 
tion of the cruel tyranny of the misuse of 'words' by 
designing men, this very term, 'demons,' originally 
denoting something 'divine,' blessed, and god-given, 
soon became tortured into a name for 'beings' or emana- 
tions from 'beings' said to be perpetually warring 
against everything 'divine' in man, and in the universe 
around him ; whereas all such manifestations are but 
the natural operations and outcomes of the attractions 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 7 1 

and repulsions of the forces existent in all things 
animate and inanimate. ' ' 

Being more and more amazed at these startling 
statements of my good friend, the Senior, I enquired 
whether he included what is commonly called ' ' spirit- 
ualism" and "clairvoyance" among the manifestations 
of the human electrical force. 

He replied: "Assuredly so, my dear Juvenis. All 
actual ' clairvoyants' are extremely negative electrically. 
The comatose state attendant thereon may be self- 
induced, and the susceptibility therefor is not in- 
frequently superinduced in persons (generally females) 
who are suffering from consumption or decline in one 
form or another. The electrically comatose state of 
the person really clairvoyant is simply an intensified 
form of that of the individual who, with the eyes shut, 
tells the hour by a watch, reads from a book, de- 
scribes the persons and furniture in another room, or 
correctly designates the location and appearance of 
objects more or less remote. 

1 ' Doubtless, also, the clairvoyant often merely 
describes distant objects and persons from the im- 
pressions received by electrical communications from 
the brains of persons in close proximity. 

"In short, my dear Juvenis, as before intimated, 
the 'seeing' by clairvoyants, without the use of the 
eyes, through solid bodies which are good conductors 
of electricity is, as I have heretofore stated, even less 



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complicated, and is more easy of comprehension than 
is ordinary 'seeing with the eye' through a solid body 
such as thin glass which is a good conductor of solar 
or other light. 

1 ' Moreover, it is well known to specialists on the 
varied operations and manifestations of human elec- 
tricity, ' that clairvoyant (clear-sighted) individuals, 
while in an electrically comatose state, self -induced or 
other, can and do readily receive impressions of things 
and events which at a near or remote period have been 
photographed, as it were, by nature on inanimate 
objects. The world is full of proof showing that such 
clairvoyants do see and describe the scenes, both good 
and ill, electrically photographed, for example, upon 
the walls of a room by previous occupants, and hence 
is the key to unlock, the clue to unravel most of the 
so-called mysteries of haunted houses, and the like ; 
and hence also is the real explanation of the un- 
numbered statements frequently being made by persons 
not markedly susceptible of receiving such electrical 
impressions, that while they are in such and such 
rooms an uncomfortable and uncanny feeling, often of 
fear or dread, becomes impressed upon them, and that 
in other rooms the very opposite is experienced by 
them. Nor could it be otherwise. In one case, on the 
bare walls of the room are hung, as it were, innumer- 
able human electric photographic pictures of past evil 
events, and in the other, those of the good. 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 73 

' ' All such and a known multitude of kindred expe- 
riences of the most intelligent persons are not vain 
imaginings, but they are indisputable facts which, as 
has been shown, are founded in nature ; and, on the 
lines set forth, they are of ready comprehension and 
explanation. 

"The modus operandi of receiving such electrical 
photographic impressions of past events, from 'bits' of 
matter of any kind, is generally about as follows : Any 
person, say the husband of the clairvoyant, procures a 
small piece of any substance, such as cloth, wood, 
stone, or the like, which has been exposed to exterior 
animate electrical photographic influences or effects 
(produced by nature's chemical handiwork), and the 
subject places this bit of material upon her forehead 
(the article beforehand having been wrapped in a piece 
of thin cloth or paper when it is desired that the clair- 
voyant may not 'see' the substance), and in a 
short time, when the hypnotic state has been fully 
self -induced, the clairvoyant proceeds to describe the 
various impressions received by her ; and it is all but 
needless to add that these descriptions are often most 
interesting and instructive. They are frequently writ- 
ten down by an auditor (since perfectly hypnotic, clair- 
voyant, mediumistic, and other like visions are not 
impressed upon the 'brain' so as to become matters of 
'memory' on the part of the 'seer' or medium), and 
not a few such notes have been put in print. Many 



74 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

are unaware that some of the finest literary or scientific 
'passages' (and treatises even) which they have ever 
heard or read, were originally clairvoyant utterances 
such as those mentioned above. 

1 ' Perfected facility in self-inducing the clairvoyant 
state, and minute fulness and other excellencies of the 
descriptions, will generally accord with the natural* 
perceptive capacity and the mental culture of the clair- 
voyant. 

1 ' Moreover, all real clairvoyants, when in a com- 
plete hypnotic state, are able to describe the appear- 
ance, and the like, of an absent individual by holding 
in the hand or placing on the forehead a lock of the 
hair or a bit of an article of clothing which had been 
worn by such absent person. 

' ' Also, the marked natural development of the 
1 electrical sense' (or receptivity, as above, of electrical 
impressions), as in 'bloodhounds,' is familiar to all, and 
whereby they will track, almost anywhere, a person 
whom they have known or a portion of whose clothing 
they have 'snielled,' as is said. Of course, the electric 
'track-scent' will be 'lost' in the waters of rivers or of 
lakes which the fugitive may have swam across (or 
waded in), because the electricity of the swimmer or 
wader has necessarily become dispersed throughout the 
water. The dog, however, will regain the electrical 
scent impression made by the fugitive at any place 
where he may have again betaken himself to the land, 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 75 

' ' Many other animals also, both feral and domestic, 
have this same 'electric sense' very highly developed, 
as is well known to many observant individuals. 

' ' And whatever superficial thinkers and observers 
may say to the contrary, vegetables even (not now to 
speak of like facts concerning things inanimate) are 
more or less capable of receiving (and imparting) 
electrical impressions or influences from the individuals 
who tend them. The very presence amongst them 
of a loving caretaker is to them a ' benediction.' 

"In short, my dear Juvenis, it is not the presence 
and influence of imaginary and Utopian ' hobgoblins ' 
which are to be feared in this world of ours, but it is 
the presence and influence of low-grade human animals 
whose vileness, electrically and otherwise, vitiates the 
whole atmosphere and infuses itself into all persons and 
things about and around them. Vile man himself is 
his own demon of darkness and evil. The real 
thoroughbred human animal is an angel of light and 
life. 

"You also, my dear Juvenis, very pertinently and 
anxiously enquire concerning what is now so generally 
known in our modern western world as ' spiritualism, * 
which, by the way, is but a newly assumed 'name' 
for one of the most ancient, most widespread, and 
most unhappy ' delusions ' which has ever enserfed 
humankind. In its very name it postulates an ' un- 
known force' (spirit) to interpret and explain the 



76 ¥3 THOROUGHBRED. 

operations and manifestations of a well-known ' force,' 
namely, animate and inanimate ' electricity,' and thus 
wholly reverses the common sense and scientific method 
of investigation by ' assuming ' an unknown ' cause ' 
instead of beginni ag with what is, or may be, ' well 
known' and proceeding therefrom, outward and on- 
ward, identifying, comprehending, and elucidating what 
has ignorantly and superstitiously been ' assumed ' of 
the really ' unknown.' 

"Oh, ignorant and unhappy man! In the long, 
dark and dreary past, and even in the doleful and mis- 
guided present, he ever has been, and still is, seeking 
for unknown, unknowable, and non-existent 'causes' 
in his futile attempts to comprehend and explain what 
is of and within himself and all around him in outward 
nature, and all whose operations and manifestations 
are in perfect accordance with the fixed facts and 
unvarying laws of nature, and which, in general, are or 
may become of ready comprehension and beneficent uti- 
lization by the 'ken and can' of him who 'alphabetically' 
reads aright 'the book' of his own animal being, and 
of the animate and inanimate world around him ; and 
who, from the same facts and laws, may clearly per- 
ceive by analogy the necessary continuance of the 
operations and applications thereof far on beyond his 
own finite 'ken' into humanly incomprehensible infin- 
itude. 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTKRY. 77 

"But to return, in detail, to your query regarding 
1 spirit ' manifestations, revelations, and the like. 

"The 'A. B. C of spiritist operations is substan- 
tially as follows: A group of individuals, male and 
female (often extremely positive and negative elec- 
trically, and generally of those constitutionally and by 
habit predisposed to make or receive electrical impres- 
sions), seat themselves alternately and in proximity 
around a small wooden table. They place the palms 
of their hands on its top, the ends of their thumbs in 
touch, the little fingers of their right and left hands in 
touch with those of the contiguous sitters at their right 
and left, and so ©n of the group of alternate males and 
females wholly around the tabletop (making a com- 
plete circle of thumbs and little fingers in touch, all 
resting upon the table), and thus they really form 
what is known in elementary electrical science as the 
'voltaic battery,' and by which, as is well known, a 
continuous current of electricity is generated. 

' ' This group of persons thus sit for a considerable 
period in solemn silence, with minds intent, while the 
human electric current is generated, and the electricity 
spreads in cumulating quantity over the surface of the 
tabletop, where it remains generally for a very con- 
siderable time, since the 'dry' wooden legs of the table, 
being poor conductors of electricity, do not readily 
convey it to the floor of the room from whence, by 
the walls of the building, it would with facility be 



78 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

conducted to the 'earth,' the great reservoir of mun- 
dane electricity. 

' ' These unwise experimenters having each imparted 
a very considerable portion of their own Vital electri- 
cal force' to the inanimate tabletop, which, from the 
overflow of the human voltaic- electrical battery around 
and upon it, becomes more or less highly charged with 
the commingled 'human electricity' of the unwise group 
of individuals, and the preparations for the so-called 
'spirit' manifestations are complete. 

"Now, it is to be borne in mind that the 'quality' of 
the commingled human electricity with which this poor 
little inanimate table is thus surcharged, is precisely 
that of the combined character or quality of the elec- 
tricity of the experimenters physically, instinctively, 
mentally, and morally, whether such be good, bad, or 
indifferent. 

"All things are now ready for the 'spirit;' that is, 
the 'human electrical' manifestations. 

"It may here be remarked, however, that what 
might to some appear to be a very rude 'spiritual' 
happening, occasionally takes place just at this point 
somewhat as follows : Should it so be that the com- 
mingled electricity with which the table has thus been 
'charged' is, say, highly positive, and one of the sitters 
be in an extremely negative condition, and should 
s uch an one be the last to rise from the table, and if, per- 
chance, he be a new experimenter, his agitated affright 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 79 

can easily be imagined when the mutual electrical at- 
tractions of the 'positive' table and the 'negative' ex- 
perimenter cause the table to tip over upon and adhere 
to the affrighted subject ; and it will so remain until 
their electrical conditions are equalized, when attrac- 
tion will cease. 

"It will be readily understood that such 'spirit' rude- 
ness will sometimes disperse a gathering of amateur ex- 
perimenters. 

"Bear in mind also, that it is necessarily an indis- 
pensable condition of the complete success of the elec- 
trical experiments (the so-called 'spirit' manifestations) 
about to take place, that there be no 'on-looker' present 
who is of an extremely positive temperament electri- 
cally, and who is determined so to 'will' that he may 
counteract or nullify the operations of the 'spirits,' 
because it is necessarily certain that a sufficiently 
powerful electrical cross-current emanating from such 
an one in a small assembly, and from several such per- 
sons in a larger gathering, will (although solemn 
silence be maintained) effectively interrupt or wholly 
prevent the 'spirit' (that is, the electrical) manifesta- 
tions at the 'seance.' 

' ' In the absence of such electric 'cross-currents, ' 
it is also to be borne in mind that the 'spiritists' are by 
temperament and by their surroundings in an electrical 
condition highly favorable to the giving or receiving 
electrical brain impressions ; that they are in electrical 



80 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

affinity generally with each other of the immediate 
group or 'circle' of experimenters ; that they are also 
necessarily en rapport electrically with other persons 
who are absent (their electrical 'affinity' with whom, 
as I have before pointed out, not being materially 
affected by distance) and from whom communications 
may even the more readily be received because of their 
increased electrical receptivity induced by the experi- 
ments and surroundings of the seance. 

' 'Remember, too, that the table accumulated electricity 
forms a center of mutual electrical relationship between 
the individual experimenters, and that the very at- 
mosphere of the room has become fully charged with 
the same vital force radiating from the tabletop ac- 
cumulation until the diffusion thereof from the table is 
complete, when all 'spirit' manifestations will cease 
and the seance come to its close. 

" Moreover, the audible rappings produced by the 
impingement upon the table, by transmission of human 
electricity, has its corresponding counterpart in the 
\mplest experiments in ordinary frictional or dynamic 
electricity, whether as in the spark seen or sound heard; 
or even in the clicking of the telegraphic instrument, 
and the like, bating the peculiarities coincident upon 
its quality, characteristics, and operations as human 
and vital (and not ordinary or inanimate) electricity ; 
and because of its origin in the lower or higher grade 
of human animals. The 'communications' or 'revela- 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTKRY. 8 1 

tions' made in various ways, coming as they all do 
from the brains of living persons absent or present, 
are the more peculiar and the more markedly distinct, 
according as they are the outcomes of abnormal inherit- 
ances, or of unusual developments of some one por- 
tion of the human brain, whether intellectual, imagina- 
tive, reverential, social, or of the animal propensities. 
Also, proofs abound showing that many of the 'spirit' 
communications received at seances are only 'tele- 
graphic messages' transmitted from the brain of an ab- 
sent individual who is known to be electrically en rapport 
with a person in the 'circle, ' even with the principal 
'medium' at the seance ; and subsequent mutual 
explanations have frequently shown that the thoughts 
'revealed' by the 'medium' were identically those in 
the mind of the absent individual at the very time the 
'revelation' of them was made at the distant seance of 
'spiritualists.' In the same manner also, a knowledge 
of, or an acquaintance with, the opinions or writings of 
a deceased individual is electrically received from the 
brain of a person present at, or absent from, the 
seance, and a 'revelation' thereof is made by the medium, 
and 'the credulous' ones 'assume' that it came from 'the 
spirit' of a person long deceased, whereas it has often 
been demonstrated that the 'knowledge' concerning 
the deceased (which was said to have come from 'the 
spirit world') , in fact, came from the brain of a person 
in the 'circle,' it having been afterwards shown that 



82 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

the statements of the medium were a literal reproduc- 
tion both of the correct and the incorrect impressions 
of said present individual concerning the deceased, 
and hence no 'sane' person could possibly doubt 
whence said ' revelation' came. In short, my dear 
Juvenis, such and such like averments as the foregoing 
may be made of all so-called ' spiritual revelations. ' 

"Moreover, the mediumistic 'pencil writing' by 
direct 'electrical' dictation, emanating from the 'brain' 
of an individual far or near, is in reality but a counter- 
part of like writing by a pen or typewriter from 
ordinary audible, oral, telegraphic, or telephonic dicta- 
tion, the former being a direct electrical communication 
from brain to brain, and the latter also of electrical 
brain origin, being conveyed through the plural instru- 
mentalities of wire, and ear, and voice; or, in literal 
transcription, through the eye. 

"Nor is the 'floating table' manifestation at such 
'human electrical' seances, either as to the facts or 
the manifestations, other than counterparts of the 
'iron wire' or small 'bolt' suspended in the center of 
an ordinary electrical 'helix,' and which is held in the 
center of the 'helix' without 'contact' by the surround- 
ing equalized electrical attraction and repulsion, and 
which, by what 'is called' the 'attraction of gravita- 
tion' (and which, in 'essence,' is 'electrical'), will 
descend if the electrical current through the wire 
forming the helix be 'broken/ but will cease to move 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 83 

the moment the electrical current is 'restored.' The 
bottom 'fact* in each of these 'manifestations' is 
identical, namely, a heavy body suspended (or moving) 
in 'midair' without being in 'contact' with any other 
heavy body. 

" In short, my dear Juvenis, the 'spirit' which pro- 
duces all the sentient, visible, audible, or tangible 
manifestations at all honest 'spiritualistic' seances, is 
the 'spirit' of human and other 'electricity;' and all 
the so-called 'spirit' mediumistic 'revelations' are but 
the 'writing down' or the vocal utterance of the elec- 
trical brain impressions of some person (or persons) 
present or absent with whom the medium is en rapport 
by electrical affinity and human electrical communica- 
tion. 

" And, as I before intimated, the 'revelation' deemed 
(assumed) to be from what is called a 'disembodied 
spirit,' is but an 'electrical' communication or 'mes- 
sage' to the 'medium' from the 'brain' of another living 
person of the impressions or knowledge of said living 
person concerning some deceased individual with 
whom he had been acquainted or of whom he had 
heard or read; and, moreover, if the living person from 
whose brain is transmitted the 'story of the departed' 
is of defective natural ability or education, the 'story' 
thus 'revealed' will necessarily often be of such a 
character, grammatically and otherwise, as greatly to 



84 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

discredit the oft well-known Earthly' ability and 
culture of 'the deceased' from whose 'spirit' the 'story* 
or 'revelation' is said to come. 

' ' In like manner also, all the personally 'unacquired' 
skill, knowledge, or ability of any kind (such as 
playing upon a musical instrument) which is frequently 
manifested by an honest, uneducated electrical 
'medium' in a state of perfect hypnotic trance, is but 
the electrically transmitted skill, knowledge, or ability 
of some living person present or absent with whom the 
'medium' is, for the time being, in human electro- 
telegraphic communication, and whose skill, knowledge, 
or capability of any kind is transmitted from such 
living persons through the 'medium' instead of through 
a telephone, a phonograph, or by other electrical 'wire 
communication.' Only this, and nothing more. 

' ' Moreover, if the source of these electrically trans- 
mitted impressions is in the brain of a low-grade, de- 
ceitful, and lieing human animal, the spiritists aver 
that a lieing disembodied 'spirit' controls and deceives 
the 'medium;' and so also, on the contrary, if the 
source of the 'revelation' is in the brain of a living 
'thoroughbred' human being, the spiritists as absurdly 
aver that a 'good' disembodied 'spirit' from an alien 
world controls and 'speaks' through the 'medium;' and 
also when the mundane human electrical communica- 
tion, from any ordinary cause, comes to a close, the 
s piritists aver that the 'spirit' has taken its departure 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 85 

to its alien ultramundane abode, and thus on it is 
through the whole category of 'assumptions' regarding 
what they call 'spirit revelations.' 

" And, my dear Juvenis, if it be deemed necessary 
in order to put the human and mundane 'source' of 
each and every of all such mediumistic and so-called 
infra or supramundane 'spirit' communications beyond 
all sane possible doubt or peradventure, let, for ex- 
ample, two individuals of strong will and of highly 
'positive' electrical temperaments, and who, for ins- 
tance, are 'high priests' of such diametrically an- 
tagonistic 'religious beliefs' as 'Calvinism' and 'Uni- 
versalism,' appear in succession in the presence of the 
same (honest) 'medium,' and each of these enquirers, 
so 'willing' it, will receive, in reply to identical ques- 
tions concerning 'futurity,' answers which perfectly 
correspond with their own respective 'religious beliefs, ' 
that is, their own 'brain impressions' electrically con- 
veyed to the 'brain' of the medium will be returned 
to each enquirer as a 'revelation' from the 'spirit' con- 
trolling and speaking through the 'medium.' 

" This latter statement, as will be observed, is 
literally, amusingly, and instructively true, because the 
actual 'spirit' in each and every such like instance is 
the 'questioner' himself who electrically controls the 
'medium,' and in reality 'dictates' the so-called 'spirit' 
answers to his own questions. 

" This unfailing test of the actual 'human' origin of 



86 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

all such so-styled spirit 'revelations' may be verified, 
as above, in trie case of any and every bona fide and really 
entranced 'medium' in the wide world, all averments of 
'spiritualists' and others to the contrary notwithstand- 
ing. 

"And, my dear Juvenis, not to overweary you 
with the all but innumerable details of ' spiritist ' 
visions, vaticinations, ghost appearances, and all such 
like, it will, to a person of your intelligence, suffice 
further to remark that they are often the 'brain im- 
pressions' of the individuals themselves (that is, they 
are what are frequently called 'subjective impressions,' 
or those of a person's own brain, and hence wholly 
within himself), or they may be 'objective' or outside 
the individual, and often are but the 'electrical photo- 
graphs' which, as I have before intimated, have been 
impressed upon the outward inorganic world, and 
which are not infrequently 'seen' by human and other 
animals, and more especially by those whose natural 
electrical receptivity is very great, or by persons in a 
hypnotic or semihypnotic state. 

' ' And as to the reputed ' apparitions ' of ' human 
form,' testified to as having been 'seen' by two or 
more unsuborned witnesses, they, if real, appear to be 
of but two principal classes, namely, they may be the 
' electrical bodies ' (of living persons) temporarily 
departing from or returning into their ' grosser material 
bodies, ' say, as in the case of ' adepts ' of perfected 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC EATTERY. 87 

knowledge of their own wondrous inherent capabilities, 
and of perfected skill in controlling and directing their 
highest innate and fully developed electrical and other 
like material powers and functions of their own bodies 
and being, from the lowest to the highest and most 
divine and God-like. 

" That some 'adepts' (as also others calling them- 
selves ' spiritualists ' ) claim to have and occasionally 
do exercise such inherent and acquired power over 
their 'inner electrical self or selves,' appears to be well 
authenticated; but, at the same time, it is affirmed by 
these 'adepts' that such is done by them wholly by 
knowing and utilizing their own 'natural' powers and 
capacities, and not by the aid or influence of any so- 
called disembodied or other 'spirits.' 

"Or, on the other hand, some of these 'apparitions' 
may be relegated to visible manifestations of the 'elec- 
trical body'— the 'electrical inner self — of a human 
being, which is necessarily a perfect counterpart in 
form of the outward and 'grosser material body,' and 
which (like as 'balls of electric light' ) may of necessity 
become temporarily 'visible,' as above; or upon the 
sudden cessation of the still healthy functions of the 
'gross material body, ' as in the case of sudden death 
by accident, or in some kinds of sickness by slow bodily 
decay, during which it is well known an abnormal 
quantity of bodily electricity is set free; and when 
such sickness becomes fatal, many seemingly sane and 



88 YH THOROUGHBRED. 

reputedly truthful persons aver that they have 'seen* 
an electrical or ethereal 'body' pass out of the dead 
gross material body. 

' 'In such and analogous cases, the 'inner electric self 
thus suddenly or otherwise dissevered and set free from 
the gross material body, may and does in some in- 
stances become 'visible,' and for a brief time remains 
visible in the vicinity of its late grosser counterpart ; 
and the separated and less gross 'electric body,' having 
by itself but little inherent 'electrical cohesion,' is 
speedily disintegrated and diffused into the vast sur- 
rounding reservoir of mundane and supernal electricity. 
And thus the grosser material body commingles with 
its mother earth, and the less gross electrical body re- 
commingles more or less speedily with the all-pervad- 
ing electric force of the universe. 

"Of the 'invisible, immortal soul' or spirit, believed 
by many to exist in every human being, the elucida- 
tion of my present theme does not require me to speak. 

" And now, my dear Juvenis, the hour is late, and I 
will bring this, perchance, too protracted interview to 
a close by somewhat briefly replying more in detail 
to your important query concerning the operations and 
manifestations of the 'human electrical force' in the 
ordinary intercourse of individuals, and in the common 
affairs of everyday life. 

"And foremost, because it is generally called 'the 
greatest thing on earth, ' I remark that 'human love' 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 89 

in all its peculiar manifestations is but 'human electrical 
attraction,' whether its manifestations are between the 
merely physically strong and the weak ; whether be- 
tween the basal backbrains whose special functions are 
those of the amatory animal passions ; whether of 
those portions of the brain whose functions are social ; 
or whether in ascending gradation they are mental, 
aesthetic, reverential, ratiocinative, or of all combined. 

"If the animal 'brain' is largely, say, abnormally, 
developed, as is the case in most low-grade human and 
other animals 'after their kind,' its sexual amatory 
manifestations are of a sort closely allied to those of 
the salacious brute ; and if such persons, electrically, 
are abnormally 'positive,' vile, and vitiated in character 
and quality, they are the pestilential despoilers of 
individual and social peace and purity. 

" If, on the other hand, mutual human electrical at- 
traction is the result and outcome of well-balanced, 
well-bred, and well-mated brains and other physical 
qualities, then and then only does it become a 'bond* 
cf mutual good, of joy, of peace, and of true human 
happiness, to be preserved and strengthened by due re- 
straint and conservation, guided by an intelligent un- 
derstanding of, and obedience to, the unvarying facts 
and laws of our physical constitutions, and especially 
of our human electrical relations and capabilities. 

' ' Moreover, if the electrical affinities and the mu- 
tual intermingling of the 'brain impressions' of in- 



90 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

dividuals be even in a closely approximate degree those 
of mere intellectuality, then mutual electrical affinity 
or attraction is commonly known as 'platonic love. ' 

' 'And thus it is on through the multitudinous and 
multifarious category of human likes and affections. 
They all are but the varied manifestations of sexual 
and other human electrical attractions resultant from 
bodily and other inheritances, and from the make, the 
status, and the culture of the individual. 

"On the contrary, too, all human aversions, dis- 
likes, personal antipathies, and hates, are in their ul- 
timate analysis but the manifestations of human ' elec- 
trical repulsions,* and hence also of human origin, 
cognizance, and control. 

' ' Thus also it is of all like manifestations of myriad 
sorts among the lower animals, 'after their kind/ and 
between them and man; and not only in their anal- 
ogies, but also in their fundamental identity they are 
the same, namely, 'animal electrical attractions or 
repulsions. ' 

' ' The existence of analogous facts, and the oper- 
ation of the same electrical laws, are in innumerable 
ways manifest also in the vegetable (and inanimate) 
world, but to which this passing reference alone can 
now be made. 

' ' In the ordinary business and general intercourse 
of men, the individual of potent influence is he who is 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 9 1 

electrically 'positive;' and such an one, in common 
parlance, is spoken of as being 'magnetic.' He at- 
tracts others; he leads; he controls. 

" Take, for example, the public speaker. The 
effect produced upon his hearers by his discourse — 
other things being in accord — will, in general, be 
measured by the quantity, activity, and quality of his 
radiating electrical force. 

" The words uttered by each of several speakers may, 
for example, be identically the same both as to the 
words themselves and the grammatical construction of 
the sentences, and thus the same thoughts may be 
orally expressed; but the electrical impressions made 
upon the brains of the auditors will be radically dif- 
ferent, according as the electrical emanations of the 
speakers are those of ill-bred or thoroughbred human 
animals. Mere mental culture, feigned voice, deceit- 
ful cunning, and sanctimonious mien may temporarily 
deceive the eyes and ears of beglamored 'negative elec- 
trical receptives' in an assembly, but no dissimulation 
in voice or mien, no tricky tropes or rhetorical leger- 
demain, will materially change the actual electric brain 
impressions produced, whether good, bad, or indif- 
ferent, according as are the real character and elec- 
trical characteristics of the speaker. 

" The electrical 'positives' (men and women) in an 
assembly may and often do resist and repel the evil 
electrical brain impressions transmitted from a speaker; 



92 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

but the opposite is generally the case with those in an 
audience who are extremely negative or receptive. 
The latter are generally females, or males of peculiarly 
feminine characteristics, and hence among these are 
the most numerous facile victims of fads, furores, and 
delusions of every sort and kind. 

" Of what I have just stated, every intelligent indi- 
vidual can for himself make innumerable all-important 
practical applications in all the relations of everyday 
life, and should govern himself accordingly, everbearing 
in mind the unchanging truth embodied in the too oft 
unheeded apothegm, 'Kvil communications (oral and 
all other) corrupt good manners' (morals, wills, and 
characters). 

* ' Nor, my dear Juvenis, can such human electrical 
manifestations be overlooked as not infrequently 
result from two or three congenial individuals as- 
sembling, say, in an upper room (wherein, as has 
been intimated, the electrical conditions are more 
favorable than on the generally more moist ground 
floor), when with thoughts mutually preintent, say, 
upon what is humanly good and uplifting, their 
mutually beneficent electrical atmospheres freely inter- 
commingling, their theme of intellectual discourse 
being of an ennobling scope, their emotional exercises, 
say, of a devotional and reverential kind, the resultant 
effects upon themselves (and, perchance, upon some 
absent ones upon whom their concordant electric in- 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY. 93 

fluences are with united purpose concentrated) will, in 
general, be correspondingly good and beneficent. 

* ' On the contrary, also, of a like assembly of low- 
grade persons of base and vile intent (with mutual 
purpose and design to conspire for ill against absent 
ones upon whom all their evil thoughts and intents are 
concentered), the resultant effects not only upon them- 
selves but also by electrical transmission, will, in gen- 
eral, be of corresponding ill to him (or them) upon 
whom their combined electrical force is concentered, 
and in whose brain will not infrequently be engendered 
a dread of impending evil; and which, by intensified 
continuance and repetition, may and often does produce 
* mental unhingement ' in a brain unhappily of insuffi- 
cient resistance or positive and repellant electric force to 
withstand and turn aside such transmitted ' electric 
brain waves' of ill-intent thus concentered upon 
himself. 

" This latter is the work of human demons of dark- 
ness; the former is that of human angels of light and 
beneficence. 

" Consider, too, the unnumbered applications of all 
these and other like human electrical facts in their 
multifarious manifestations among and upon large 
assemblages of the high-grade and the well-bred, of 
the motley crowd, and of the all but unredemptively 
degraded of human beings, and the objects, ends, and 



94 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

aims for which they may have congregated, and the 
most superficial observer can but see that it is the 
1 human electric force ' which dominates men individu- 
ally and in the mass, whether for good or ill and 
whether for uplifting or degrading. 

* ' To know the real source of human good or ill is to 
find and apply the true means to promote the one or 
remove the other; and when man comes to know that 
the real cause of both is not extraneous but is within 
himself, he will clearly see that the ' alpha ' of all 
real human improvement is in human ' bodily regen- 
eration, ' in the * breeding and training of true thor- 
oughbred human animals, ' and the ultimate extirpa- 
tion of low-grades. 

" Moreover, my dear Juvenis, bearing in mind that 
1 distance ' is really not a ' limiting unit ' nor a ' domi- 
nating factor' in measuring the etheric and atmos- 
pheric spread and effect of all such and such like 
electrical 'brain- wave' impressions, it becomes easy 
scientifically to understand the simultaneous existence 
and manifestations of identical thoughts, fancies, fads, 
delusions, and epidemics of hate, crime, and the like, 
as also of social, political, and other like excitements 
and commotions for good or ill, not only in the near 
but in the remote parts of the hemisphere and of the 
whole world at one and the same time; nor do the 
ordinary * medicos ' appear as yet to realize the great 



MAN AS A MAGNETIC BATTERY 95 

part played by the electrical diffusion of virulent 
mental, moral, and physical disorders, and diseases of 
every sort and kind. 

1 ' Hence also is the real source and explanation of 
the marked electrical effects upon human and all other 
living organisms, of immediate material environments 
of every kind, of altitude and latitude, of the presence 
or absence of light and heat, of local or more general 
atmospheric conditions (and of some of which the 
'rheumatics' are 'barometers'), of seismic disturbances, 
and of solar, lunar, and planetary electrical effects 
upon the earth and upon all thereon, animate and 
inanimate. 

' ' And hence, too (based upon the grand electrical 
and other like concordant effects produced upon our 
solar system by the greater planetary and stellar 
1 conjunctions ' closing an old and ushering in a new 
siderial cycle) , the sages and seers of the olden time 
foretold the coming upon earth of a new 'Avatar, ' and 
the beginning of a new ' aeon ' of health, peace, plenty, 
prosperity, and good will among men; and with well- 
grounded hope it is believed that the now fast 
approaching ' 20th Century ' will inaugurate a more 
glorious era than this old world of ours has ever known 
hitherto. . 

" And, my dear Juvenis, let me add that the time is 
now in which to dispel and forever banish the ignoble 
and enserfing superstition which teaches that these all- 



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pervading and ever present human electrical influences 
and effects emanating from ourselves and from those 
around us, are produced by good or evil alien beings 
from some imaginary places of abode, and whose bene- 
ficent influences can be secured, or whose maleficent 
influences can be averted, by individuals who profess to 
have an intimate acquaintance with such, and who 
(generally for a ' consideration ') promise to secure for 
their patrons the l good offices ' of the one class of 
alien ' spirits ' or drive away the other. 

1 1 Yes, truly, my dear Juvenis, all things portend 
that the long, dark and dreary night of human ignor- 
ance, superstition and oppression is about to end ; and 
the glorious day of true knowledge and of manly and 
womanly obedience to the laws of nature and of na- 
ture's God is about to dawn, when high-grade men 
and women of regenerated species and thoroughbred 
culture will more and more fill the earth, and dwell 
together in fraternal peace, prosperity, and happiness; 
when the true gospel of humanity will be preached 
to every creature ; when the only true faith of the 
fatherhood and motherhood of God, and the brother- 
hood and sisterhood of man and woman, will every- 
where beneficently prevail; and when the age will have 
come of which Scotia's immortal bard divinely sang : 

" ' It's comin' yet for a' that, — 

When man to man, the world o'er, 
Shall brothers be for a' that ! '" 



THIRD INTERVIEW. 



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The "American," the British-Canadian, the Franco-Canadian, 
and other varieties of the Caucasian species of the genus homo 
in North America. The notable national position of the United 
States. The possibility and the practical beneficent outcomes 
of a firm alliance of amity between the British Empire and 
* the Great Republic." 



(98) 



THIRD INTERVIEW. 

MAN AMERICANIZED. THE GREAT REPUBLIC ; ITS 
STATUS, DANGERS, DUTIES, AND ITS FUTURE. 

1 ' Yes, my dear Juvenis, it is certainly true that 
among the most potent factors differentiating indi- 
viduals and peoples, are the mineral and geological 
character and characteristics of their habitats, or of the 
localities wherein they may have become dispersed. 

' 'The markedly distinguishing differences in varieties 
of the same or different species even, are generally at- 
tributed to climate, vegetable or animal diet, social 
habits, education, and the like, all of which assuredly 
have their important place and effect, but how seldom 
are considered the more fundamentally important facts 
and effects arising from the composition and quality of 
the soil. 

" Oh, yes, the ancients were literally correct in 
designating the human animal as homo, humus, made 
of 'earth.' 

" In fact, unless soil qualities and other geological 
characteristics are taken into account, it be comes 
wholly impossible satisfactorily to explain the many 

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and great tribal and national varieties, say, of the 
Caucasian (Aryan) race now spread over the whole of 
Europe, much of America, and numerous other por- 
tions of the earth; nor otherwise can be clearly under- 
stood the specially distinguishing physical and other 
differences of the various peoples of Central and North- 
western Europe and their descendants throughout the 
world. 

"To particularize somewhat: The stalwart Celtic 
Scot is chiefly indebted for his massive bony fabric to 
the abundanf limestone in the greater part of the soil, 
and in the rocky substratum of his native heath. 

"Ivime, in one form or another, is the principal 
substance composing 'bone;' and where limerock 
abounds, the soil, the water, and the vegetation are 
surcharged with lime, and hence comes the abundant 
supply of ' bone food ' for man and beast; and thus the 
massive bone fabric of the Highland man has been 
nourished, upbuilt, and maintained through long con- 
tinuous generations. 

' ' If, on the other hand, the earth supply of ' lime ' 
is deficient, the bone structure of the human animal 
suffers from lessening nourishment; and hence a dimin- 
ishing size and strength of bone in man (and in the 
other animals) will be the result, and in process of 
time will lead to the collapse and even to the extinction 
of the race from bone-food starvation. 



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" And hence, not without foundation in nature was 
the myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, that to repeople 
the earth, the stones (the bones of the earth) became 
men and women, — durum genus — a hardy race. 

So, too, the 'vim,' the energy, the 'blooming' 
health of individuals is largely due to a sufficiency of 
1 iron food. ' Iron is all-essential to vigorous animal 
vitality. Wherever iron abounds in the earth, man 
procures a sufficiency from the water he drinks and the 
food he eats. 

1 ' Iron is a vital constituent of healthy blood. It 
attracts and extracts from the air in the lungs the 
life-supporting element of oxygen which transforms 
the brown-red venous blood into the revivified florid- 
red arterial blood, which, carried to every part of the 
body, nourishes and reanimates every tissue, and 
paints the cheek with that rose-red bloom which is so 
peculiarly characteristic of those persons and peoples 
whose native soil is abundantly supplied with the all- 
essential life and health element of iron. 

"The saying that 'he is a man of iron' is not a 
mere figure of speech. It is very often literally and 
happily true. 

' ' Hence also, on the contrary, why it generally is 
that the countenances of many individuals whose 
supply of iron food is deficient are pale and wan, and 
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hence, therefore, it is that wise 'medicos' in their 
practice act upon the important fact that multitudes of 
their patients are decaying simply from want of a 
sufficiency of 'iron food.' 

" For instance, also, contrast the generally ruddy, 
healthful countenances of the inhabitants of the British 
Isles, whose soils are surcharged with iron, with the 
countenances of those of their brothers and sisters who 
have emigrated to a country whose soil is almost des- 
titute of this essential life-supporting element, and in a 
brief term of years pallidity of countenance and di- 
minished physical vigor will be painfully manifest 
amongst those thus having been transplanted from 
their native soil. 

"Again also, note the oftentimes wondrous im- 
provement in such respects of those persons who have 
removed from an iron -deficient soil to one rich in this 
essential element of animal life and health, and conse- 
quent bodily 'vim' and vigor. 

" And, my dear Juvenis, not at this time to cite 
other like important facts, of which the thoughtful and 
studious may readily become informed, what I have 
now set forth will lead you and others more fully to 
understand how and why some families, clans, tribes, 
nations, and peoples for long ages past have been, now 
are, and give promise long to be, strong, vigorous, and 
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(seemingly more favorably circumstanced) have long 
since decayed and are now numbered with the nations 
that have been. 

' ' In these latter countries the soil constituents es- 
sential to the vigorous maintenance of high-grade 
vegetable and animal life had in the course of time 
been all but wholly consumed; and being without in- 
coming recuperative foreign supplies, both the vege- 
tables and animals (including man), gradually became 
extinct, or gave place to a scantier and lower grade of 
animal and vegetable life; and hence long fallow ages 
must pass ere the slow recuperative forces and pro- 
cesses of nature will restore a sufficiency of what is 
required again to nourish a higher order of life. And 
if such is to continue, the lacking elements of 'soil 
food' will wisely have to be procured from other 
portions of the earth containing in greater abundance 
those 'soil elements' that are deficient in their ov/n, it 
may be, otherwise favored land. 

1 1 Thus also is clearly manifest the mutual interde- 
pendence of all peoples and all lands in this oft much 
ill-used, dear old world of ours — the nourishing mother 
of us all. 

1 ' Nor, my dear Juvenis, do such important facts 
apply only to the exceptionally prominent soil qualities 
of human food supply, but they are also of potent uni- 
versal application to every kind and quality of our 
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in the 'making' of a higher or a lower grade of human 
animals physically, mentally, morally, and otherwise. 
" For instance, it is startling to note how many 
human beings there are, even among so-called civil- 
ized peoples, who, in their voracity in devouring the 
flesh of 'other animals, ' are so little removed from the 
abhorred 'cannibals.' Nor is an inordinate appetite 
for the flesh of low-grade feral and domesticated 
animals wholly wanting among many so-called en- 
lightened peoples; and it is not an open question that 
inordinate flesh eaters possess and manifest, in a marked 
degree, bodily, passional, and other characteristics of 
striking likeness to those of the animals whose flesh 
they (and their progenitors for many generations) 
have eaten as a staple article of their daily food; and 
hence the not unneeded admonition of the ancient 'saw,' 
that 'he who feeds inordinately on "pork," will be 
"porcine;" on "beef," will be "bovine," ' and so on. 
And, moreover, it is not to be doubted but that the 
appalling salacity prevailing among so many peoples,, 
is largely attributable to dehumanizing foods and 
drinks. 

' ' Now, while it must be admitted that the use of 
the flesh of some feral and domesticated animals will 
long continue to be more or less a necessity for many 
peoples in most lands, yet it is undoubtedly true in 
general, that those persons are wise who restrict them- 
selves more and more to the use for food of the higher 



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orders of fish, and fowl, and fruit, and other 
'vegetables;' and, doubtless, it must also be acknowl- 
edged that many of the higher grades of mankind are 
by a still wiser course restricting themselves more 
fully, if not wholly, to the use of the most approved 
and improved fruits and other vegetable foods, and 
discarding the 'drinking usage' of all fluids excepting 
such as are contained in the vegetables eaten. 

1 ' Moreover, the statement made by many flesh 
eaters that animal fats for food are a necessity in the 
colder climes, is not admitted by others who contend 
that the fats of fishes and fowls are for all food pur- 
poses superior to those of quadrupeds; and there are 
still others who, with much reason, aver that vegetable 
oils are much better than either for all the necessities 
of vigorous bodily sustenance in any clime, and that 
in vegetables alone are also contained (and in the best 
of nature-prepared forms) all the metals, minerals, 
acids, fluids, and the like, which are required for the 
maintenance, development, and nurture of the very 
highest grade of human beinjgs. It is also pointed out 
that the higher orders of feral and domestic animals 
whose flesh is used for human food, subsist, after 
weaning, wholly upon vegetables, and that water 
drinking is resorted to by them chiefly in the absence 
of a sufficiency of succulent food, and in a few other 
emergencies. Man is, unhappily, the 'drinking animal.' 
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vailing appetite for intoxicating liquors, is to eradicate 
the unnatural desire for water drinking or other fluid 
drinking of any sort or kind. 

" The drinking appetite is an abnormal 'inheri- 
tance.' 

* ' The perfected thoroughbred human being is a non- 
drinking animal. The juices of the grape, the orange, 
the pear, the apple, the melon, and of a multitude of 
other fruit and vegetable * foods,' amply suffice him 
for all necessary fluids. 

"And, my dear Juvenis, while, assuredly, the 
* weaning ' of the now world of ' flesh eaters ' and 
' fluid drinkers ' will of necessity be slow, yet, in the 
meanwhile, the public health and the common welfare 
alike imperatively demand that the flesh, and all other 
animal products (now used as human food for old and 
young) , such as milk, cream, butter, cheese, lard, and 
the like, shall be those of young, healthy, and properly 
fed animals, and not of the aged, the decayed, the 
sickly, and the diseased, since it is an indisputable fact 
of fearful import, that the flesh and other edible pro- 
ducts of such decayed and otherwise diseased animals 
are wholly unfit for healthy human food. And they are 
also the fruitful causes of innumerable diseases, often 
of the most virulent kinds, such as fevers, blood and 
other body poisoning; and they are also the means of 
receiving into the human system many varieties of 
entosoa (such as trichinae in pork, and the like, whose 



MAN AMERICANIZED. IO7 

vitality the ordinary heat for cooking does not destroy) 
and to which, often in untold numbers, the human 
body becomes a continual prey, and which are often 
the real cause of excruciating pains and generally irre- 
medial suffering. Of these facts all intelligent medical 
men and many others can abundantly testify; and 
hence society should imperatively demand to be more 
fully protected from the terrible effects upon old and 
young of suoh life and health- destroying animal foods. 

1 ' And now, my dear Juvenis, in still further extend- 
ing the scope of my remarks at this interview, I need 
hardly remind you that no age of the world has 
equalled the present in the means and opportunities to 
learn the unmistakable and vitally important lessons 
of the past, relating to man individually and collec - 
tively, and successfully to apply them for the benefit 
of the present and the future. 

" In our own times, as it were, a new western world 
has been discovered, and much of its history has 
become known. A third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, 
and even a seventh generation of ' European ' men 
and women have been born and reared upon the vast 
areas of American soil, with individual, local, and 
national characteristics too marked to escape observa- 
tion, and too prominent and significant to be passed 
by without causing intelligent enquiry into the real, 
the potent causes which have produced them. 

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theme, call to mind the bodily and other characteristics 
of the so-called aborigines of North America, from 
Labrador and Quebec on the northeast; from the 
steppes of north- central Canada, and Alaska on the 
northwest, and from these points south all over Canada 
and the United States of America, and in view of 
what I have said, carefully note the striking concord- 
ance of the bodily and other characteristics of the 
so-called aborigines with the mineral and vegetable 
character and composition of the soils, and the geologi- 
cal formations of their respective habitats; and in 
ocular proof thereof, mark the diminutive stature and 
the dwarfed bony fabric of the Esquimaux; the tall 
and often stalwart forms and combative characters 
of the numerous and widely-scattered tribes of such 
'braves' of iron and rock as the Algonquins, the 
Iroquois, the Catawbas, the Mohawks, the Cherokees, 
the Uchees, the Natches, and the Dacotahs. Note 
also, in general, the comparatively peaceful character- 
istics of the southern Sioux, and other tribes of the 
Ohio and the Mississippi valleys, so prone to agricul- 
ture and residence in town and village groups; and 
consider, too, the Oregon and other far western tribes 
so little inclined to war, except in self-defense. 

" Moreover, no intelligent traveler can but have 
observed that, after a few generations, the European 
and other immigrants who supplanted these aborigines, 
have, in their turn, both in bodily and other character- 



MAN AMERICANIZED. IO9 

istics, become, as it were, markedly manifest counter- 
parts, 'after their kind/ of those whom they sup- 
planted. 

"Thus, in stature and habits, the French- Canadian 
habitants of the northeast are markedly typical coun- 
terparts of the Esquimaux, the considerable variations 
which exist amongst them being but indices of the 
intercommingling of other aboriginal and European 
'blood.' The diminutiveness of the prevailing type of 
their horses and cattle also indicates a like trend and 
teaches the same lesson. 

1 ' The Acadian Scot also, having been transplanted 
into a soil of 'iron and lime,' perchance, sometimes 
even more congenial than his native heath, has not 
only 'held his own' bodily and otherwise, but it may 
be added that the type has materially improved ; in all 
which the close observer is forcibly reminded of the 
historical superiority of the aboriginal Micmacs, and 
the Etchemins (Canoemen) of the now maritime 
provinces. 

1 ' And thus, too, the typical English emigrants who 
possessed themselves of what they called New England, 
became in but a few generations so far removed from 
the paternal type that the later incomers of their own 
kith and kin deemed them almost to have become 
another variety of the Caucasian species, and hence 
they derisively joined in dubbing them not English or 
British, but 'Yankees,' failing to perceive, in their 



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temporary blindness and antipathy, that they were 
accentuating and perpetuating an historical title of 
honor notably distinguishing an improved variety of 
the 'John Bull' original. In all this, however, the un- 
prejudiced observer clearly perceives that if 'Jonathan' 
(the typical 'Yankee') had lost in 'rotundity,' he had 
gained in 'stature'; if, in general, he had lost some- 
what in 'muscular strength,' he had gained in bodily 
activity and brain force; and if the pitch of the voice 
had gone a few removes upwards in the gamut, it had 
but followed the 'seat of power.' 

* ' In this trend of human type variation to what is 
generally admitted, in not a few respects at least, to 
have been an advanced human status, the New 
Knglanders were but markedly tending towards the 
bodily and other characteristics which preeminently 
distinguished their aboriginal antetypes, the dominat- 
ing tribes of the Massachusetts, the Pawtuckets, the 
Nipmucks, the Pokanokets, and not a few others, 
many of whose chiefs are well known to have been 
men of more than 'common mould.' 

1 ' Among the notable Dutch and English emigrants 
who got possession of the great Eastern gateway of 
North America, and of the magnificent country around, 
precisely analogous variations of unique Caucasian 
type became markedly observable at an early period. 

' ' The soil which had nourished the dominant Man- 
hattans, the Montauks, the Pequods, and the Mohawks, 



MAN AMERICANIZED. Ill 

soon evolved a distinguished European-American 
'tribe,' whose prominent characteristics even at this day- 
impress upon the mind of an observant foreign on-looker 
the idea that, perhaps, unconsciously to themselves, 
there is manifest among these modern Manhattans a 
not altogether unfounded notion that they are among 
the vety foremost of the superior Commonwealth clans 
of the now great Republic. 

( ' And so also it is of those of the I^and of the Minsi, 
the Delawares, the Shawnees, the Nanticokes, the 
Susquehannocks, the Powhattans, the Catawbas, the 
Cherokees, the Illinois, the Chickasas, and many- 
others of marked individual and tribal superiority. 

11 But, my dear Juvenis, there is no necessity further 
to amplify what is so obviously manifest to every 
widely traveled and thoroughly observant ethno- 
graphist and ethnologist, that from the goodly bands 
of the brave Ontarios and the Ottawas, south to the 
'tribes' bordering on the domains of Mexico, and 
from the extensive habitat of the most ancient Uchees 
on the southeast Atlantic coast to the far west tribal 
nations on the Pacific, the same all-important ethnic 
lessons for present and future benefit may be learned 
from the geographic character and characteristics of 
the 'tribal' children of the American soil, both 
aboriginal and modern. 

" Happily, however, for their own destiny and for 
the destiny of mankind, favoring fates did not (as of 



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old in unhappy Europe) suffer the improved and more 
powerfully developed individual, geographic, and ethnic 
characteristics of the homines novi of the New World 
to crystallize (by reversion) into a number of petty, 
independent, and antagonistic tribal nations, and thus 
to have postponed for ages, if not for aye, the pres- 
ent grand outcomes and coming possibilities of that 
fair 'land of the setting sun.' 

' ' The far separation of those reinvigorated scions 
of the foremost races of western Kurope, from adverse 
foreign influences, their continuous contiguity of sea- 
coast location, their nearness of kinship, their common 
necessities and interests, their untrammeled home in- 
tercommerce, and their intermutually concordant ends 
and aims — all these and other auspicious congenital 
causes and influences begot and nourished within 
them a spirit of self-help, self-reliance, and personal 
courage thentofore all but unparalleled in history, and 
which but needed a sufficiently provocative exterior 
assault upon their common rights, and upon the 
common weal, completely to unite the necessarily 
weak disjecta membra into a united and powerful body 
for the common defense of liberty and right. 

1 ' The awful crisis came, and the right triumphed. 

' ' Then was laid the foundations oi a new political 
order of things in which ancient geographic colonial 
autonomy and locally important rights and privileges 
were measurably conserved in local or state legislative 



MAN AMERICANIZED. 1 13 

authority, and the whole were welded into one great 
nation having supreme prerogatives and functions to 
conserve, administer, and execute the duly expressed 
will of the sovereign people in all things pertaining to 
the general welfare. 

1 ' The amazing outcome has been that a congeries of 
fifty republics (having rejected the so-called divine 
rights of kings, and, in lieu thereof, having accepted 
the truly divine rights of humanity) are now included 
in a vast national domain extending over some twenty- 
five degrees of latitude, and some fifty degrees of 
longitude, thus averaging in breadth from south to 
north about fifteen hundred miles, and about three 
thousand miles in length, from the Atlantic on the 
east to the Pacific on the west ; and hence the citizens 
of the great Republic of republics dwell together on 
a greater continuous habitable land area of more favor- 
ing quality and situation than has ever hitherto been 
the heritage of any other civilized people under one 
national government. 

"And, my dear Juvenis, I may here advisedly 
remark that if the now British Colony of Newfound- 
land, and the now seven Provinces of Canada (with 
the four or five others yet to be formed therein), were 
peacefully united with this great fertile interfree-trade 
domain of the American Republic, it would be of the 
greatest possible benefit to Britain, to Canada, to New- 
foundland, and to the United States. Britain, Canada, 



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and Newfoundland would thereby be wholly freed from 
many ever impending disturbing international con- 
tingencies; the united peoples would in many ways be 
beneficent complements of each other; the hitherto 
sparse population of Canada and Newfoundland would 
thereby be speedily increased; far greater racial 
harmony and domestic prosperity throughout what is 
now British North America would soon be manifest; 
the commerce of the united countries, not only between 
themselves, but with Great Britain and the rest of the 
world, would soon be vastly augmented; the fraternal 
and intercommercial federation of the 'new America* 
and the British Empire would be assured; and a new 
era of general peace and prosperity would be in- 
augurated. 

1 ' And, resuming the trend of my remarks, I may 
say that although prophets of evil (whose wish was 
father to their thoughts) predicted that this, as they 
called it, great modern Utopian experiment of govern- 
ment in the United States, chiefly from the want of 
cohesion and assimilative force, would in a generation 
or two fall to pieces, crumbling again into its original 
and aboriginal tribal or colonial elements, or other- 
wise having been broken up, would become the prey 
of Caesarism in some despotic form; — yet no; after 
repeated severe trials from without and from within, 
the Great United Republic has now entered upon the 
second decade of the second century of its acknowl- 



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edged notable existence, and seemingly is fast forging 
its way towards the foremost place among the en- 
lightened, powerful, progressive nations of the earth. 

" And, my dear Juvenis, calling to mind the myriads 
of aboriginal inhabitants; the mercenary and forced 
transference thereto in great numbers of a people of 
far-removed origin and habitat; the seemingly all but 
unavoidable incursions of long downtrodden hordes of 
alien low-grades; the multitudes of half-breeds, oft 
the unhappy outcomes of unnatural miscegenation; 
and carefully considering the vital necessity of so far 
digesting, assimilating, and incorporating such a mass 
of unnutritious elements as that, if possible, to some 
redemptive extent at least, they might become nourish- 
ing aliment of the 'body politic;' — considering, I say, 
all such, it is the miracle of the ages that the 'young 
giant' of the Western World has not long ere this 
fallen a prey to the worst form of 'national dyspepsia,' 
social, moral, ecclesiastical, and political. And every 
well-wisher of his race will devoutly pray that local 
and national 'sanitation' of all kinds may ward off or 
remove this dread 'epidemic,' and ever preserve local 
and national health, strength, and prosperity. 

* ' And, my dear Juvenis, you fittingly enquire what, 
along with those I have already intimated, are some 
of the other fundamental causes which have so power- 
fully operated to produce the wondrously peculiar (t. <f . , 



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one's own and not another's) individual, local, and 
national character and characteristics of the 'Ameri- 
canized' variety of the great Caucasian race. 

"As mere 'pointers' in reply thereto, I may allude to 
a general consanguinity of descent from an advanced 
parent stock; extensive commingling of congenial 
blood ; a common national language ; the fundamen- 
tals of a common 'faith;' a common culture; freedom 
from many old-world repressing influences; stimulation 
of invention by the necessities arising from long 
isolation and other causes ; a common impulse to 
secure for themselves and theirs, bettered conditions 
and environments; an immensity of wealth in lands, 
in mines, in forests, and in waters; multifarious 
opportunities to engage in congenial occupations; a 
strong and abiding faith in their own potentialities 
and those of their country; a powerful desire to build 
up a new and improved order of things and outstrip 
the rest of the world in a career of progress and 
prosperity— all these and many other favoring con- 
ditions and circumstances, such as infinite variety of 
scene and clime, an invigorating atmosphere, and the 
like, have played their important parts in the grand 
evolutions of the Western World. But if I have read 
aright the great lesson, if I have correctly noted the 
most potent fact, the most important fundamental 
factor of all (and to which I have hitherto made fre- 



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quent reference), it is this, that the peculiarly potential 
vegetable, mineral, and metallic virgin soils of the 
vast fertile areas of 'America, ' produce in the greatest 
abundance all the vitally nutritious and forceful 
vegetable and animal foods of every sort and kind 
required for the evolvement and nourishment of men 
of brawn and bone, and brain and Vim.' 

' ' And, yet my dear Juvenis, these potent factors, if 
merely 'localized' in their outcomes, would but have 
produced a number of powerful, comparatively dis- 
united, and oft unhappily antagonistic ' tribalities ' 
(whether colonial or state) had not imperative 
common needs demanded and created increased fa- 
cilities of intercommunication, and had not vast ac- 
cessions of territory been accompanied with a corres- 
ponding affluence of ocean, lake, and river. And 
hence, therefore, more fully to unify and 'nationalize' 
the innumerable beneficent outcomes of intense 'local- 
isms,' the most distant cities and the most remote 
localities have been brought (and bound) together by 
an unexampled network of iron highways, and by 
immediate telegraphic and telephonic connection and 
communication, thus measurably annihilating dis- 
tance, promoting constant intercourse by travel and 
otherwise, facilitating to the greatest extent the per- 
petual interchange (between the near and the most 
remote) of natural and artificial products of all kinds, 



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and thus also practically demonstrating the vital inter-, 
dependence of all the parts, and making of the whole 
one great neighborhood. 

1 ' Now, my dear Juvenis, bear also in mind that the 
Republic of the United States of America contains 
such an immense arable and fertile temperate-zone 
area of every habitable altitude, that it produces in 
such abundance nearly all the superior foods of every 
kind required for the vigorous sustenance of £ man and 
beast;' that it contains by far the greatest continuous 
extent of fertile national territory between all whose 
component and constituent parts there is free and 
untrammeled interchange of art and earth products ; 
and that the 'daily food' of the major portion of the 
whole people consists chiefly of the 'natural products' 
not only of their respective localities and their own 
particular states, but of almost every other principal sec- 
tion of their own vast domain, with but a few important 
products of foreign soils (as may be most instructively 
observed by noting the 'nativity' of all the articles of 
food placed upon the average American 'family table,' 
say, for one week or even for a single day) ; and it 
will be clearly seen that an all-important unifying 
national factor of ' American nationalism' is that the 
'national foods' of the 'Americans' are chiefly 'national' 
(and not merely 'local') products ; and hence that 
'American' men and women are mostly formed of the 
dust of 'American' ground, and not merely of the 



MAN AMERICANIZED. II9 

dust of their respective states, and hence, therefore, 
that a distinctively homogeneous 'American' variety 
of the Caucasian species has been and is being evolved 
and crystallized. 

' ' And hence also why it is in great part that the 
long 'localized' varieties of the better European (and 
other) immigrations have become so rapidly 'Ameri- 
canized' by this forceful process of bodily 'national 
food' assimilation, and by other concordant unifying 
influences; and hence why also they (and especially 
the first native generation of such recent immigrations) 
look more like 'Americans,' acquire and manifest the 
common impulses and aspirations of 'Americans,' 
think like 'Americans,' talk like 'Americans,' act like 
'Americans,' and also why either in whole or in great 
part they so rapidly become and really are 'Americans.' 

"The original and fundamentally distinguishing 
characteristics of the Caucasian (or other) races do, of 
course, remain, but the 'localized' characters and 
characteristics of their immediate progenitors (of fairly 
well-bred varieties) have largely disappeared, along 
with the gradual displacement from their bodies of 
their foreign 'native dust,' and their construction and 
reconstruction from 'American' earth. And although 
by tradition, associations, and otherwise, they may 
have a strong affection for and be laudably proud of 
their 'native' land (or that of their fathers), yet, for 
ins f ance, should they revisit it, they will, in general, 



1 20 YH THOROUGHBRED. 

shortly become depressed with 'homesickness,' and 
have a longing to return to what has literally and 
actually become to them a new 'nativity,' of whose 
soil, of whose very dust they are. 

' ' And, my dear Juvenis, while from all these and 
other potent causes the distinctive characteristics of 
the ' American ' people, properly so-called, have 
become not only intensely local,' and, in general, 
still more intensely 'national, ' it is a well-known fact 
that they are also among the most numerous of so- 
journers abroad and of world-around itinerants; and 
hence also it is that frequent foreign travel and inter- 
course and foreign 'daily food' have become markedly 
potent factors in making 'Americans' more and more 
'cosmopolitan.' Nor should it be forgotten that the 
daily mental 'pabulum' of the greater proportion of 
the 'American' people is beyond comparison the most 
'cosmopolitan' of any other people on the face of the 
earth. 

" The 'potentialities' of all these and other like im- 
portant facts are of unmistakable import. May all 
their outcomes be beneficent !" 

I now begged my good friend, the Senior, to 
express his views regarding adverse and antagonistic 
influences existing in the Great Republic. He cheer- 
fully replied : 

" Yes, my dear Juvenis, amidst all these and many 
other pleasing and beneficent individual, local, and 



MAN AMERICANIZED. 121 

national transformations which h e been taking place 
in 'America' for two centuries and upwards, chiefly 
amongst transplanted European peoples and others of 
the better grades, there have been and still are in 
vigorous, if not increasing activity the potent and less 
easily eradicated forces of ignorance, superstition, and 
almost Babel diversity of languages, which are perpet- 
ually menacing the vital interests of the great Com- 
monwealth. 

' ' These hostile forces exist chiefly amongst the 
masses and the descendants of the masses of those who 
have voluntarily gone to the United States, or who 
have been 'sent' there from among alien low-grade 
peoples, long enserfed politically, socially, ecclesiastic- 
ally and otherwise. And in 'America' these 'man 
and state destroying' forces are to a dread extent being- 
fostered, marshalled, and directed by those and the 
emissaries of those whose dominating and aggrandizing 
ends and aims at home and abroad ever have been, are 
now, and always will be, attained chiefly by the perpet- 
uation and utilization of gross ignorance and supersti- 
tious credulity amongst mankind. 

" Moreover, my dear Juvenis, although the frame- 
work of the government of the United States was 
based upon the idea of a homogeneous and enlight- 
ened 'citizenship,' composed chiefly of an 'American- 
ized' variety of but one progressive and dominant 



122 YH THOROUGHBRED. 

species of mankind, possessing an inherent and highly 
cultivated capacity for self-government, yet it has, un- 
happily, come to pass that the inherent racial hetero- 
geneousness and other non- assimilative antagonisms 
of great numbers of 'citizens' of several separate and 
distinct species and sub-species of the genus homo, 
have become and are a menace of no small magnitude 
to the social, political, and general well-being of the 
Republic. 

"And while, perchance, the coming or bringing 
into the country of very considerable numbers of such 
merely as 'inhabitants,' might have been of specia 
advantage to many of those of diverse 'origin' ancf 
characteristics, and a not altogether unmitigated evil 
to the dominant race, yet their all but wholesale 
admission to the status, and to all the rights, privi- 
leges, and responsibilities of 'citizenship,' was based 
upon a political and an ethnical fallacy whose fearful 
outgrowing evils have been added to and aggravated 
by the indiscriminate 'naturalization' (so-called) of 
multitudes of grossly ignorant and long enserfed alien 
members of the dominant species even; and (what is 
still worse) of great numbers of ignorant, superstitious, 
and long demoralized sub-species (of most unhappy 
mixed origin), and who in any rejuvenated land and 
under any reformed government are and seemingly 
will continue to be in chronic antagonism to the 



MAN AMERICANIZED. 1 23 

generally accepted and established order of affairs; and 
who, in general, become the mercenary instruments of 
political and other demagogues. 

1 Beneficent 'Americanizing' influences of all kinds 
may (and do, to some extent) favorably modify these 
discordant and inherently antagonistic elements, and 
measurably ward off the evil effects (upon the State) 
arising therefrom; but no artificial processes or in- 
fluences of any kind can so transmute, digest, or 
assimilate them as that the resultant will be aught but 
a 'mechanical mixture' and not a 'chemical union' in 
the 'body politic ; ' and hence it is that 'the enlight- 
ened' of the 'American' people are practically brought 
face to face with some of the most difficult ethnolog- 
ical, social, ecclesiastical, and political problems upon 
whose speedy and correct solution depends to a large 
extent the highest weal of the Great Republic. 

' ' Moreover, my dear Juvenis, not only from what I 
have intimated, but for other imminent reasons, the 
people of the United States have now devolved upon 
them many of the gravest national responsibilities and 
not a few of the most important national duties both 
to themselves and to mankind; and hence they are, 
inter alia, urgently called upon to revivify, reempha- 
size, and reconfirm much that is old, retrace false 
steps, follow truer paths, and take new and nobler de- 
partures. 



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124 Y3 THOROUGHBRED. 

' ' It may not, therefore, be deemed an intrusion 
should an unprejudiced on-looker and a sincere well- 
wisher suggest that the following at least should be 
included among the foundation principles of their new 
'Declaration of Rights' and duties: 

i. " Both in theory and in practice they should for- 
ever renounce the fundamentally erroneous and per- 
nicious 'self-evident' untruth that 'all men are created 
equal;' and they must reaffirm and reapply in broader 
scope the all-important truth, 'that they are endowed 
by their Creator with certain (inherent and) unalien- 
able rights,' among which 'are life, liberty, and the 
pursuit of happiness, ' in peace, probity, and security, 
and by individual, social, and national betterment; 
and also that it now imperatively devolves upon them 
to reproclaim and reenforce the vital principles that in 
order to secure (and enjoy) these rights, governments 
are instituted among men, deriving their just powers 
from the (truly enlightened) consent of the 'governed. ' 

2. " Furthermore, it is also imperatively demanded of 
the now enlightened of the ' American ' people, to 
acquire such knowledge of, and yield such obedience 
to, the laws of nature and of nature's God as greatly 
to increase and multiply the number of true men and 
women of the highest all-round grade of make and 
culture, or be overtaken by the demoralization, cor- 
ruption, and decay (if not extinction) which have, 
unhappily, befallen so many of the once most favored 



MAN AMERICANIZED. 1 25 

nations of their (and our) great Aryan race during 
the long disobedient ages of the dark and dreary past 
of this old world of ours. 

3. " It is also of imminent importance that the truly 
enlightened 'citizens' of the 'American' Republic 
shall hold, proclaim, and enforce the divine doctrine, 
that in whatever pertains to the relations of man to 
man, and to the interest and functions of society and 
of government, that all the inherent and acquired 'rights 
of the individual ' are and must be subservient to and 
circumscribed and bounded by the ' common weal ' ; 
and that no man or body of men shall be suffered to 
act in contravention thereto or in violation thereof. 
There is and can be no other common (individual, 
social, political, and ecclesiastical) law for all men. 
The ' common weal ' must be deemed and caused to be 
the fundamental standard of judgment and the final 
court of appeal. The ' welfare ' of the people is and 
must be made the supreme law. 

4. "It is also a further fundamental necessity that the 
'American ' people and government shall provide for 
and cause that every child of every species in the Re- 
public shall receive, at the very least, a thoroughly 
national elementary school education in all necessary 
practical arts and sciences, in sound morals, and 
humane amenities; that no 'separate school' of any 
kind shall receive one penny of public money ; and 
that no person, whether of native or foreign birth, 



126 YE THOROUGHBRED. 

shall be permitted to have and to exercise the ' rights 
of citizenship ' unless possessed of sufficient natural 
and acquired qualifications therefor. ' Universal 
suffrage,' without these essential prerequisites, is a 
fatal delusion and a snare whose inevitable outcomes 
must speedily bring decay, if not ultimate ruin, to the 
Republic. 

" Such universal national school education, and such 
imperative qualifications for 'citizenship,' are the chief 
foundation stones upon which rest the main pillars sup- 
porting the fabric of the Great Republic ; and against 
these the worst home and foreign enemies of the 
United States are making and will persistently con- 
tinue to make (both insidiously and openly) their 
fiercest and most determined assaults. Whose shall 
the victory be ? 

5. " Moreover, in consequence of the now 'organized 
occupancy' of nearly all their vast public territory; 
the great extent of all but unnumbered areas of fertile 
lands still held by individuals, syndicates, and cor- 
porations for one purpose or another; the constantly 
increasing numbers of the tillers of the soil, and many 
other like facts, not only the people, but the state 
legislatures and the national government of the 
United States are about to be confronted with a new 
and all but untried condition of domestic affairs; and 
hence there will soon be devolved upon them the 
great national duty to seek and to find a rightful and 



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beneficent solution of the all-important 'land problem' 
of the ages. And not only so, but from the trend of 
local, national, and international affairs and events, 
and because of their more favored conditions and en- 
vironments, the distinction will probably first be theirs 
wisely to consider, rightfully to determine, and effec- 
tively cause to be reduced to practice the vital and 
mutually important 'obligatory rights and duties' of 
labor and all other capital (it may be by the creation 
of a new department of the national government solely 
therefor); and, further, it now appears to be the 
hope and expectation of the most thoughtful students 
of human affairs, and of the best well-wishers of man- 
kind, that upon the enlightened citizens of the Great 
Republic will preeminently devolve the greatest and 
most fundamentally important of human duties, 
namely, to inaugurate such changes in the very frame- 
work of human society and government as that they 
will more fully accord with the inherent rights, the 
mutual responsibilities, the bounden duties, and the 
highest welfare of man. 

6. ' ' And, further, the people and government of the 
United States must also proclaim and maintain that, 
while under due restrictions, they will welcome to their 
country as a home all those of congenial races who are 
desirous and capable of becoming, with themselves, 
one homogeneous and truly 'Americanized' people; 
vet they will not suffer their country to be made a 



128 YK THOROUGHBRED. 

'dumping groutld , for the 'low-grade' or 'refuse popu- 
lation' of all countries; while, at the same time, they 
desire to have such friendly intercommunication, and 
such mutually advantageous commercial and other 
neighborly intercourse with all peoples of other lands 
and other races as that, in their own habitats or 
acquired habitations, they may best progress on lines 
most in accordance with their own characteristics and 
environments; and thus cause that 'diversity' of race 
even may be mutually promotive of 'unity' of interests, 
and of international and interracial fellowship and 
good will. 

7. " And, above all, since it is universally admitted 
that the American Republic now occupies a foremost 
place among the great civilized and enlightened 
nations of the earth, and gives well-grounded promise 
of a still grander future, it, therefore, becomes the im- 
perative duty of its people and government, with wise 
forethought and with circumspect prudence, duly to 
consider their position, interests, and obligations as 
one of the most potent factors in moulding and direct- 
ing in amity and impartiality coming international 
events, not only for the promotion of their own 
national welfare, but for the maintenance of interna- 
tional peace and good will; and for the advancement of 
liberal and beneficent intercourse between all nations 
and all peoples. 

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these great international duties and obligations can- 
not with impunity be disregarded or evaded by the 
people and governments of the United States of America. 

' ' The Providential overshadowings of events un- 
mistakably indicate that upon the great American 
Republic — the coming 'Greater Britain' of the Western 
World — devolves the initiative of a commercial and 
defensive Federation of Amity among all Knglish- 
speaking peoples, for the maintenance of international 
peace, and for the advancement of racial and inter- 
national prosperity, and which in the generations to 
come, may happily lead to the friendly Federation of 
the World ! 

To which all sincere well-wishers of humankind 
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